This World Cancer Day, cancer survivors and PatientsEngage contributors share advice based on their lives experience on how best to deal with a cancer diagnosis. #WeCanICan #WorldCancerDay #WCD2018
What would you tell a person who just learned of…
Nila, 80 from Ahmedabad talks about how a mild gastro issue led to a life altering diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer and how she learnt to live with a colostomy bag and a modified lifestyle. And her coping mantras.
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Ignatius Misquitta, 56, who has been battling epilepsy attacks for over four decades, looks at how epilepsy shaped his life and humorously recounts how his seizures landed him in a soup many times. And why he wears a bracelet.
My first seizure at 12…
Eiffel Tower, Roman Coliseum, Disneyland, Glacier 3000…Prashant Verma and his wife, Veena, both visually impaired, got an adrenalin thrill visiting these popular tourist destinations in Western Europe. Read their exciting travel diary.
When we…
Swarnalatha, who lives with the chronic disease Multiple Sclerosis, needs hospitalization for 6-8 weeks twice every year. She wonders if the pain is worth it and through metaphors and the books she reads finds an answer. Read her reflections…
Mariyam Raza Haider, 26, gives a first person account of how she makes her father’s chemotherapy cycles for aggressive oral cancer as easy and comfortable as possible. This is the first of a two-part series.
Chemotherapy, despite being one of the…
Parul, 48 from Mumbai talks about tackling hypothyroidism in her own way, accompanied by food cravings and a debilitating bone health.
Please tell us a bit about your condition
I have hypothyroidism. I need to take Eltroxin every day
When were…
When a series of catastrophic medical incidents left Payal Kapoor blind, deaf and a veritable vegetable (as she felt then) at 21, she was devastated. Yet, she pulled herself together, mastered reading and writing in Braille and felt alive once…
Gita Kantawala, 72 from Mumbai had a complete knee replacement of left knee preceded by arthroscopy due to a meniscus tear. She talks of the failures and successes of her surgeries and the recovery and rehabilitation process. And the need for a…
