(MENAFNEditorial) Cancer Conqueror''s book launched on World Health Day Bladder cancer patient and his caregiver wife have released a book entitled "When Thoughts Invade a Cancer Conqueror" describing their battle against cancer
THANJAVUR TAMIL NADU INDIA April 12 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The end of next month is the ''World No Tobacco day'' and in the light of all this it is heartening to see a book written by a bladder cancer secondary to decades of smoking conqueror and his caregiver wife elucidate their experiences as they vanquish the advancing crab. Yet what is most striking is the encouragement to new bladder cancer patients without being judgemental on their past addiction to tobacco. The book describes the entire journey through several bouts of surgery and the turbulent interactions between friends family and doctors yet shows how they return to a good quality of life. The book has been dedicated to his father the Late Mr N S Siva This happens to be his birth centenary.
The stoma care nurse in the story explains ''When eyes dim with age spectacles come to the fore. When one gets hard of hearing the hearing-aids take control. When teeth refuse to mash artificial dentures come to the rescue. When legs are disfigured Jaipuri prosthetic legs rule the roost. None of these cause any embarrassments; so why should the urostomy bags used when the excretory system malfunctions make you feel like the odd one out?''
In "Thoughts Invade the Cancer Conqueror" Kuppuswamy shows how he got addicted to smoking in his college days and kicked the habit after he became the father of two teen-aged boys. Yet decades later the crime calls for appropriate punishment. Smoking entertains no mercy petitions and the long-term price has to be paid. Bladder cancer catches up with him on his seventieth birthday. It revealed its presence through gross hematuria. More like a little bit of urine in the blood and not the other way round. Through several bouts of surgery some comfortable some with surprises some downright irksome the details of which are vividly described in successive chapters he conquers cancer. Several ups and downs irrational fears and premature ecstasies rule the roost. Complicated emotions come into play between Kuppuswamy and his wife Pramila on the one hand and the team of doctors on the other. Looked like almost every speciality under the sun: oncology nephrology urology anesthesiology cardiology neurology interventional radiology Internal Medicine consultant and physiotherapist had a role to play in his rapid recovery and rehabilitation. Absent were probably only the orthopaedist and the psychiatrist. Why even the interaction with a hundred doctor friends on Facebook kept his spirits alive. His recovery and his rehabilitation are parts of a dream come true for his team of doctors all younger than his own children. He begins a new lease of active life running a boutique and counselling new cancer patients. How exactly he comes through all this and how his family and all those near and dear to him win the war on cancer is the crux of the story.
The message he conveys is:
Would you rather be dead with all your organs in place or that you were living with your kidney legated bladder bagged and prostate in the basket?
And to reassure your surgeons that it is not what the surgery takes away from you that matters but how good what remains behind now functions.
Life without a bladder prostrate and several lymph nodes is not all that bad. When eyes dim with age spectacles come to the fore. When one gets hard of hearing the hearing-aids take control. When teeth refuse to mash artificial dentures come to the rescue. When legs are disfigured prosthetic Jaipuri legs rule the roost. None of these cause any embarrassments; so why should the ostomy bags used when the excretory system malfunctions make you feel like the odd one out?
But thoughts still invade the cancer conqueror
Published by Notion Press Chennai priced only $9.99 the book entitled ''When Thoughts Invade the Cancer Conqueror'' by Nilakanta Siva and his wife Rajalakshmi Siva is available amongst others at Amazon.com.
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