#BreastCancerMonth
Some of you might know her as she was a part of my #9Days9Women series.
Let's me Introduce this awesome lady today, who is my neighbor, an influencer, an enterpreneur, our very own beejee ( grandmother in Punjabi) and ...... A Breast Cancer survivor....Mrs.Vandana Kapoor!!
Being a Punjabi, she is inherently super energetic and enthusiastic, who is not only fun loving and open-hearted, but she is also naturally gifted with the art of living life without holding many regrets.
It was in june 2013 when dor the first time she felt a lump in her right breast with an excruciating pain in her underarm. The first surgeon she met with did not take her case seriously enough, she says, so she went for a second opinion. The second surgeon told her to do biopsy immediately. They came to know that it's a second grade carcinoma and after that had a mastectomy to remove her right breast and 18 lymph nodes from her right arm. One lymph node were found to have cancer. Surgery was followed by treatments of radiation therapies. “If I had not gotten a second opinion, I would not be alive right now,” she said.
She says, It was 11 days journey from detection to surgery and that 11 days was the worst of the kind as well as the epoch of belief, belief that she won't get it again!!! Life came back to normal. Struggle with the emotional trauma faded away somehow!!!
In June 2015, while doing an yearly checkup she came to know that it's a relapse!! Grade second carcinoma!! Doctors said, fortunately, this time hormones were raging in favour, so there wasn't a need of chemotherapy, but advised to take medicines for longer time. But after some follow ups doctor came to know that medicines had stopped working and the tumour has increased in size, so it was the time for chemotherapy now!! But this time she was mentally prepared!! Meanwhile her sister-in-law was also got detected with breast cancer!! Somehow the chemotherapy went well.
But again at the start of 2017, it stroked again, 3rd time, though it was a small one, it was still there. After one full routine of chemotherapy till the mid 2017, the current size of the tumour, thankfully is a small one and can be reduced by oral medicines alone . However, she still has a road ahead of her.
It was like a death sentence, had over a hundred things running through head in a second: Will I be able to be in son's marriage? Will I live to see my grandchildren? Will I live to see beautiful wrinkles on my face? There were so many things that went through the mind and head in what was the longest day of the life.
Amongst the numerous tests, plenty of medicines, devastating emotions, traumatizing radiation treatments, a fear of loosing family, Insecurities of not getting cured.... how she kept herself sane and refrained herself from falling into depression?
She says, she has been blessed and extremely grateful for her 3 children, 2 son's and a beautiful daughter-in-law, blessed to have the family and friends that she has!
She says, After what we’ve been through the last couple of years, we’ve all as a family, kicked our faith into high gear. We’ve leaned into the Lord and grabbed a hold of His Word more than ever before. I’ve prayed and cried and cried out to Him more times than I can count, yet even in my darkest hour He brings me back to His truth. Now I believe whatever he has decided for me.
She believes in homeopathy, it is helping her in not having so much of side effects of radiations.
She also says that keeping myself busy and active went a long way toward assuaging her fears. " I did much research about the relationship between diet and breast cancer. I was going to have to give up a lot of the comfort food that I had been eating for years and start shoveling in the green stuff."
She knows that there will always be a part of her that wonders if the cancer will come back, but there is a bigger part of her that has never felt more focused, healthy, and thankful just to be alive!
I was so obsessed with the words like depression, frustration, tension and many more like these....i was so attached to all these blues, that blue became my favorite color at one point!!! But when I started getting along with the people around me, I have realized so far that life is not so cruel if you have a vision which leads you towards a beautiful life!!! When you see people around you struggling, you realize how precious is our life!!
To all the young women specifically mothers, who had lost themselves into their little munchkins out there, she has a Mantra, ignorance is not a bliss!!! Be aware of every single ache in your body. And if some unfortunate things happen, then there's HOPE! DONT LOOSE IT!!!
@asha chaudhry @Priya Sood @Priya Iyer @Neha Sharma @Neha Agarwal @Sumira Bhatia @sonam patel @Sheeba Vijesh @Sheeba Rizvi @Dr Shilpitha Singh @Dr Payal M @Niveditha Rambhajan @Priyanka Maheshwari@Momzjourne @aditi manja @Satyam Sharma @Nancy Singh @Shiny Vincent @Dr.Dhanya Prajesh @Khushboo Chouhan
Some of you might know her as she was a part of my #9Days9Women series.
Let's me Introduce this awesome lady today, who is my neighbor, an influencer, an enterpreneur, our very own beejee ( grandmother in Punjabi) and ...... A Breast Cancer survivor....Mrs.Vandana Kapoor!!
Being a Punjabi, she is inherently super energetic and enthusiastic, who is not only fun loving and open-hearted, but she is also naturally gifted with the art of living life without holding many regrets.
It was in june 2013 when dor the first time she felt a lump in her right breast with an excruciating pain in her underarm. The first surgeon she met with did not take her case seriously enough, she says, so she went for a second opinion. The second surgeon told her to do biopsy immediately. They came to know that it's a second grade carcinoma and after that had a mastectomy to remove her right breast and 18 lymph nodes from her right arm. One lymph node were found to have cancer. Surgery was followed by treatments of radiation therapies. “If I had not gotten a second opinion, I would not be alive right now,” she said.
She says, It was 11 days journey from detection to surgery and that 11 days was the worst of the kind as well as the epoch of belief, belief that she won't get it again!!! Life came back to normal. Struggle with the emotional trauma faded away somehow!!!
In June 2015, while doing an yearly checkup she came to know that it's a relapse!! Grade second carcinoma!! Doctors said, fortunately, this time hormones were raging in favour, so there wasn't a need of chemotherapy, but advised to take medicines for longer time. But after some follow ups doctor came to know that medicines had stopped working and the tumour has increased in size, so it was the time for chemotherapy now!! But this time she was mentally prepared!! Meanwhile her sister-in-law was also got detected with breast cancer!! Somehow the chemotherapy went well.
But again at the start of 2017, it stroked again, 3rd time, though it was a small one, it was still there. After one full routine of chemotherapy till the mid 2017, the current size of the tumour, thankfully is a small one and can be reduced by oral medicines alone . However, she still has a road ahead of her.
It was like a death sentence, had over a hundred things running through head in a second: Will I be able to be in son's marriage? Will I live to see my grandchildren? Will I live to see beautiful wrinkles on my face? There were so many things that went through the mind and head in what was the longest day of the life.
Amongst the numerous tests, plenty of medicines, devastating emotions, traumatizing radiation treatments, a fear of loosing family, Insecurities of not getting cured.... how she kept herself sane and refrained herself from falling into depression?
She says, she has been blessed and extremely grateful for her 3 children, 2 son's and a beautiful daughter-in-law, blessed to have the family and friends that she has!
She says, After what we’ve been through the last couple of years, we’ve all as a family, kicked our faith into high gear. We’ve leaned into the Lord and grabbed a hold of His Word more than ever before. I’ve prayed and cried and cried out to Him more times than I can count, yet even in my darkest hour He brings me back to His truth. Now I believe whatever he has decided for me.
She believes in homeopathy, it is helping her in not having so much of side effects of radiations.
She also says that keeping myself busy and active went a long way toward assuaging her fears. " I did much research about the relationship between diet and breast cancer. I was going to have to give up a lot of the comfort food that I had been eating for years and start shoveling in the green stuff."
She knows that there will always be a part of her that wonders if the cancer will come back, but there is a bigger part of her that has never felt more focused, healthy, and thankful just to be alive!
I was so obsessed with the words like depression, frustration, tension and many more like these....i was so attached to all these blues, that blue became my favorite color at one point!!! But when I started getting along with the people around me, I have realized so far that life is not so cruel if you have a vision which leads you towards a beautiful life!!! When you see people around you struggling, you realize how precious is our life!!
To all the young women specifically mothers, who had lost themselves into their little munchkins out there, she has a Mantra, ignorance is not a bliss!!! Be aware of every single ache in your body. And if some unfortunate things happen, then there's HOPE! DONT LOOSE IT!!!
@asha chaudhry @Priya Sood @Priya Iyer @Neha Sharma @Neha Agarwal @Sumira Bhatia @sonam patel @Sheeba Vijesh @Sheeba Rizvi @Dr Shilpitha Singh @Dr Payal M @Niveditha Rambhajan @Priyanka Maheshwari@Momzjourne @aditi manja @Satyam Sharma @Nancy Singh @Shiny Vincent @Dr.Dhanya Prajesh @Khushboo Chouhan
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she is an inspiration!
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awww this has left me speechless 💞much love to her 💞
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such an inspiring story... hats off the beejee...
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02 Nov 2017