"Please don’t take your body for granted and respect the pleasures of life that are bestowed upon you"
January 1st,
2013. Like all other people in this world I too was quite excited about the
coming year and was making plans so as to decide my future actions. The main
highlight of the year was my CA Final exams which were scheduled in May (and as
usual was apprehensive about clearing them).
January was
progressing and with it my health problems too started to rise. Like any other normal
human being I too have faced health issues but that were limited to fever,
cold, cough etc. But something started going terribly wrong with me and I could
sense that. Well, with the end of May I got free from my exams but there were
few tests that were still going on. All the doctors that I visited wrote a new
test or some just repeated the old ones saying it might have gone wrong.
As all my blood
tests were showing out normal I was going abnormal as I had no idea what was
wrong with me. I used to get this terrible stomach ache, every month, on the
very same date that used to leave me unconscious and crying with pain. All doctors
applied various permutation & combination but could not give me a valid
reason for my ache.
It was then in
July, 2013 that I visited Asian Institute Of Medical Sciences on a
recommendation of my relative (who’s a doctor there) to undergo some more tests.
Thankfully, the team there is so well capable that they sensed something is
wrong deep down and after a week of performing series of tests they gave me the
news…..
So, I was
suffering from CANCER… Yes…!! TRANSVERSE COLON CANCER is the term… There was blockage
in a portion of my large intestine which was cancerous. 7th July,
2013 was the date I came to know about it and this is the date that changed the
course of my life. It’s too hard to digest that a mere stomach ache could be a
cancer that was growing since past 2 years with absolutely no symptoms.
I was lucky
enough to have got it diagnosed within time (As per doctors) as it was in its
second stage and could be operated. So, after being admitted I was operated on
19th July, 2013. While I’ll be cutting whole of my suffering story
short, what I want to share here is the fact that sometimes there are no
symptoms to warn you. No one could believe that I was suffering from cancer
despite of the fact that I am a gym crazy person and love being fit (though I
never took any kind of supplements to stay fit).
At an age of 25
where my other companions were busy shaping out their career or deciding to tie
a knot, I was totally unaware whether I’ll be able to lead a normal life again
or not. This term in itself is so scary that no matter how bold you are, it
surely knocks you down. It took me 6 months and a lot of support from my
family, friends & doctors to start with normal routine.
Life do gets
unfair sometimes as evident in my case but as they say, if God gives you
problems he surely gives you courage too. It’s again a new year and I again
have dreams and planning for the year ahead but this time it’s all with a
reality check. I’ll be undergoing few tests every 3 months to make sure
everything is fine inside with follow ups with my doctors (Dr. Pawan Gupta
& Dr. Saroj R Sahoo).
The whole idea
of me writing my case story above is to just to give a message, that please
don’t take your body for granted and respect the pleasures of life that are
bestowed upon you. You’ll not even know how and when something small will turn
out into something large and will leave you astonished.
(Submitted by the young cancer winner on 4th Feb, 2014)
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