THE CANCER DIAGNOSIS
Anyone who has known our family and Ira has always had the same question since her surgery last year. I feel like it’s the question that everyone wants an answer to: how did you come to know about the brain tumour (तुम्हला कसं कळलं?)? Remember the tremulousness that I talked about in my previous blog…
AN OPEN LETTER TO PARENTS ABOUT ‘VIGILANT’ PARENTING
Parenthood. Raise your hands if you feel that parenting is a beautiful, wondrous and humbling experience- yet can get overwhelming, exhausting and mind-numbing. I understand that “Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do” (not me, Matt Walsh). And I absolutely…
A PROLOGUE
5TH MAY 2017 16:45 IST I had to return to her side. I had been idling in the relative’s waiting area for 15 minutes now and my time for a mini-break was over. Each time the thought of going back to the Neuro-recovery Room cropped up in my mind I flinched. You know that feeling?…
TEASER
Difficult times teach you valuable life lessons; and I have learnt more than my fair share of life lessons after my daughter, Ira was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Through my blog – mindofmine – I hope to share with all the lessons I’ve learnt. Lessons about watchful parenting, difficulties dealing with rare cancers,…