POST-SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS IN BRAIN TUMOUR PATIENTS – SEIZURES & INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS
It is weird how I always believed that nothing bad would ever happen – at least nothing majorly bad. I now blush at my idiocy. Life isn’t meant to be fair. Not even for a 3 year old. I did not attach much weight to the many possible complications that the doctor had informed us…
NEUROSURGERY & POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS OF RIGHT THALAMIC GLIOMA IN CHILDREN
This will be the first time that I am posting a photo of Ira while in the hospital. This was taken on the day of her surgery, just before I carried her into the operation theatre (OT). Pictured here is Ira wearing a head-cap over the gauze covering the wound from the biopsy two days…
THE BRAIN TUMOUR TYPE – A REALITY CHECK AND A MISDIAGNOSIS
Bombay Hospital is a huge place, harboured in three separate buildings- old, new and not-so-old one! A modern and tall structure nestled into the narrow lanes of Marine Lines and surrounded by age-old residential buildings, tiny hotels and even a theatre. It looks discreet and unfashionable- unlike the theatre standing opposite its gate, a commonplace…
THE CANCER DIAGNOSIS – PART II
This is the second part in the series of The Cancer Diagnosis. Here is Part I. When I first heard about the tumour, I felt lost. Consonant with the feeling of falling between the cracks. First, there was the denial. How could this happen? She has cancer! Yes. Oh! Why Ira? Never before did I…
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,…