Palliative care counselor! Cancer conquerer! Book worm! A daughter, sister,wife,a mother! Born to a fauji married to one. Proud Indian
Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵When elderly parents want to talk about their death, most children are either evasive or avoid listening to them. They respond by saying ' why r u talking like this ' ! Can we as children face the truth? No one will live forever. If our parents want to talk about dying +
Hold the space for them,Listen to them, pay attention to what they are saying, help them with #advancecareplanning and reassure them that they have been heard and their wishes will be fulfilled. Remember , they want to talk about it because they know the inevitability of death+
Sep 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Let's call death as death...let them know d truth...
I just told a 32 yr old lady that her husband is dying . Breaking bad news can be tricky. There is no fixed way of doing it. What works for one may not work for the other. I hv know the couple for over 5 yrs #PalliativeCare +
S was diag with adenocarcinoma of the lung with brain mets. He was referred to me for counselling. I made him sit on a chair and spoke to him for nearly 45min. "I can't die madam, I want to live for 30 more years. I hv to see my little girl grow up" he said. Thanks to the +
Jul 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
#diaryofacancersurvivor
🧵 #Cancer
How I start my day :
6am -Thyronom tablets
9am- a PPI, 1 CCM, 1 Rocaltrol, 1 thiazide,Tapal (mild opioid for bone pains)
10 pm -2 CCM, 2 Rocaltrol, Pruvict, MGD3, 2 tab Tapal
10:30 pm - liq paraffin( a laxative since am on Tapal tab) 1/n
Say about 15 tablet every day. I can't miss my calcium and Rocaltrol even for a day ..
missing = death by rigor mortis within 2 days!
Last few weeks have been challenging! I was diagnosed with a rare skin auto immune dis order called Morphea, a firm of scleroderma! 2/n
Apr 15, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
I hd Covid n was admitted for 6 days. This picture will stay with me. For the ones reading this tweet- they are humans too! As a mental health professional I couldn't help but be there for them. Follow the thread .. #COVIDSecondWave#COVID19#COVID
I asked a nurse on duty - how long have you been doing this?
She said Since Covid hit. I hv a son who stays with my parents. For the first few months of Covid I stayed in the hostel. I didnt go home. Now he has exams, so I finish my duty..go home teach
Mar 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"I was diagnosed with cancer. So I took ayurvedic immunotherapy. I was feeling well but the tumors in my lungs were growing" says a 25yr old female patient , with metastatic lung carcinoma with a poor prognosis. What is Ayurvedic immunotherapy? 😡(1) #ayurveda
At the time of diagnosis , had this girl followed the accepted , approved and effective treatment , the intent would have been curative not palliative as it is now. (2)
