Story

I had noticed that my walking performance had noticeably declined, weight loss, warm temperatures in my body. but  - I'm approaching my 27’s, so surely it was not just related to my age. 

I was on my way from office and entered into a hospital named Konken Hospital in Mumbai with my wife Azmira on 27th March 2010  and the story starts here...

The Doctor asked about any symptoms I had been having, and when I mentioned my weakness, weight loss, slower walking, he quickly asked me for a blood test and admitted me immediately and took blood. After half an hour waiting he called me in his lab and ask for the same test again.  He thought that the blood results were a mistake.

Unfortunately  after a while the doctor returned to inform me that it was not a mistake and he told me to go back my native place immediately for treatment. My native place is Kolkata, 2000 km far away from Mumbai.

I actually had to ask the doctor, "What's happened to me?"  Another doctor came to our room and calmly explained the diagnosis - a rare form of blood cancer. What does this mean?   How much time do I have to live?  Are you kidding me?  The doctor referred me to an Oncologist by giving his/her mob no and took no fees for everything. 

After a while I returned from doctor’s chamber and my wife asked me what’s happened? I told her nothing, it’s just fever. I was not able expose my cry to her. At night I didn’t slept. It was my CANCER DAY. My white blood cell count was alarmingly high at diagnosis ... normal range is between 4,100 and 10,600, but my count was 233,000.

In the next day morning, Azmira phoned the oncologist and asked him what’s an Oncologist? The doctor explained the diagnosis to Azmira. I looked over at Azmira, then she started to cry. This was the most critical time in our life.

By that Friday (March 19th), we were meeting with the oncologist in CCWH & RI in Kolkata and started my treatment.  As per him I was in the chronic phase and going to live a long, normal, and healthy life. He prescribed the first line of treatment ... an oral drug called Gleevec,

I just turned 30. One of the hardest things I am having trouble wrapping my head around, asside from the facts of having Leukemia, is that I have not had any biological children, but I was planning on having some, and they told me i could never have any because of the medications but the fact is I really wanted to carry a biological child.


Really just feeling like I got hit by a train and thought I would come on here and maybe find some other people with it who might know what I am talking about.

I have told only close family and friends, some have gone into "super helper" mode, offering to take care of me etc, then there are the people who try to tell me its like having diabetes, (no, its diferent) and then the majority of them have looked like a dear in the headlights and just back away.

Asside from all that I am optimistic...in my way.