40 and all it brings
ABOUT ME
A 40-year-old medic recently diagnosed with breast cancer, trying to navigate the whirlwind of emotions that turning 40 and this new experience bring.
Taking it moment by moment, one foot in front of the other…
The last few weeks have brought some of the most dizzying, realest moments.
Sometimes, it still feels surreal and like a bad dream I just can’t snap out of…
LATEST STORIES
- Patient
An interesting part of this journey has been how sometimes my Drs have to be reminded to treat me fully as “only” a patient and how at other times, it reverses and they are the ones who remind me to be “only” a patient. So, for the first part, it’s about, “You know what to… Read more: Patient - We Do Not Know It All
With everything I’ve experienced so far and the unknown “more to come,” I realise that as a medical practitioner, I have known only a little about breast cancer. And even now, I know less than 50% of what there is to know. The more humbling realization is that I know far less than those who… Read more: We Do Not Know It All - And Then Life Happened
And forced me to face my mortality and the fickleness of life on earth. - This Experience
I’m leaving the hospital this evening for the second time today. This experience has had me treating severe malaria twice… This second one courtesy of the recovery room post-op. The room I stayed in afterwards was devoid of mosquitoes and so I thought I’d escaped… How wrong I was. What my cousin tells me is… Read more: This Experience - Today, I’m Not Okay…
Today is that day when I allow myself to be “not okay” I dealt with a pain in my armpit all through the night… got barely any meaningful sleep. And now, I’m sitting here in the Dr’s office, crying and begging for a painkiller. 10 days post-op, and it is today that pain decides to… Read more: Today, I’m Not Okay…
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