What does Cancer Feel like?

You may come across an article of a person that would try and explain exactly what it feels like facing a terminal disease that takes control of your day to day life, if you haven't had a first hand experience (bless you) yourself.

A very very challenging concept to deal with, psychologically I belive it is a question of your wits and whether you can keep it. 

I was afflicted by Non hodgkins lymphoma when I was about 24 years old working at an advertising agency tirelessly attending to client requirements and a bad habit of smoking cigarettes.

While I was able to deal with cancer within a year, smoking cigarettes took me way longer to stop.

I was given the R-Chop regimen by my oncologist that is 8 chemo therapy Sessions and multiple spinal taps of chemo therapy injected into my spinal tunnel and brain.

It is so surreal to be lying down on your hospital bed looking at faces of your family members, near and far, taking turns to sit by you side, as if it is the last time we shall ever meet. 

Thanks to the marvel that is modern hospitals and medicine, I was able to live through this painfully deadly ordeal that I was almost sure would take me. 

Cancer is unreal. Everything you're doing is on pause postponed indefinitely as if to gauge whether we should contain ue this or not. You're recalculatimg your life rummaging through decision getting things and affairs in order(mentally preparing for the worst) 

Chemotherapy is a whole different strife that drains your will to live, drop by drop. You lose your body and hair, the sense of taste goes away and this feeling of nausea permeates your being, daily will yourself to get up and do the chores you wouldn't think twice about usually. What matters most in such situations is your attitude and that of the people around you to make you want to look forward to a life beyond the visibly bleak horizon that you usually wouldn't or are unable to think about in times like these.

I am very grateful for peole in my life especially family that stuck it out with me and still does. For together, we conquer all odds personal or collective. 

So to put it succinctly, cancer is really really hard and rough both physically and mentally. The only thing that got me through was the people that are close to me.

For this I am forever grateful. 

Parth Raj Rana 9958862490 
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