A wife and caregiver shares the challenges of her husband living with G6PD (Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) deficiency and how it has impacted his health and their family. This is their story.
My husband Vincent* has G6PD deficiency – a condition…
As an older mother of 36 yrs, along with tumultuous family circumstances, Disha faced a fair amount of anxiety related to breastfeeding. This is her journey of those anxieties and how she was able to overcome them to enjoy the experience of feeding…
Friendship does not mean sharing good times only. When friends are with you during your worst phase, helping you to stand up, all the time directing you to take the right decisions, it takes on a different meaning. On this Friendship Day, three…
Suchismita Das was an Engineering undergraduate when the diagnosis of a rare soft tissue sarcoma (rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer) in the lung, hit her like a bolt from the blue and turned her world upside down. She fought it out bravely and now she…
Anita Sharma*, 41, is a regular, busy professional in Delhi, who was suddenly diagnosed with GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor). She shares her experience with us.
Please tell us about the condition you are dealing with
I was diagnosed with GIST…
Priya*, a 64-year-old shares her struggles of supporting her 91-year-old mother-in-law’s needs while keeping her safe and cared for as well as finding time for her own interests and priorities. She shares some tips on what worked for her.
My mother-…
Runjhun Hajarnis, 34, suffers from PVOD, a largely invisible illness which is a variant of Pulmonary Hypertension, which, in turn, prevents her from living life as normally as she would want to. As she says: "No one knows just by looking at you…
The Japanese art of Kintsugi is not only about repairing valuable broken ceramics with lacquer and gold, it celebrates the history of the breakage and repair which increases the value of the piece manifold. Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay, a great admirer of…
A toothache which turned out to be mouth cancer. Kashyap Dalal, 60 from Ahmedabad and his wife Hemal recall how he found out about his cancer during a dental check-up. A decade into his diagnosis and multiple recurrences, he now spends his time…
