 The word cancer sounds like the end of the world, but it is not. I was detected with cancer around three and a half years back. When I was eight years old, I was detected with a thoracic scoliosis. I came to the hospital as a road traffic accident patient or a case where I had most of my face smashed. The car rolled over like two, three times and then my face went over the window and then they were like really bad patches all through the face. They have diagnosed me. It's a morbid, adorant, pleasant, a previa. By hearing that, I was very shocked because it's a very difficult case. I was very, you know, scared, either I can carry or not. On 2019 March, I was diagnosed with ovarian tumours, two large ovarian tumours, which eventually turned out to be colon dectylcarcinoma stage four. Just in 2019, on 25th July, I was returning home from work when I was about to reach home. It was only five minutes away and I fell on the road. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 when my journey with cancer really started. I'm a motorcyclist based out of Bangalore. Riding is passion to me. I went to Spiti Valley. It was a group ride in the month of June end and it was then where I had a crash. In that crash, my collarbone got broken into multiple pieces. My mum fell severely ill. We were hoping that she'd be back home in no time. Overnight, it just hit us that she needed a liver transplant. When Bharat told, he had given the, given his part of liver, I was so shocked. I couldn't believe it and I was so, so grateful to him. I think he's a very generous and ideal man. He's a hero. My kids who are my strongest point, my younger son comes to me and says, mom, are you going to live? And I'm like, yes, mom's a fighter and she is going to survive this. So yeah, my elder son has been like this biggest rock in my life, making sure that every moment was comfortable for mama. He just grew up suddenly. Without my family, I would have never been able to get this far. It was hard. It was painful. But I had the support of a wonderful husband, loving parents, and that journey was possible. My doctor told me, you are going to get back to work as soon as you're going to be okay. The entire team at Manipal, because I met various departments and teams to get me prepped for the surgery. They were excellent. You know, sometimes I feel, when I'm in the hospital, it's more than a family. Whenever I come here, whenever I bring more patients here, saying that I trust them, they'll say, you are truly here. So that's a kind of familial trust I have developed with my other hospital. What I liked about my journey with Manipal is the clarity and the thought process and the way the surgeons approached me to give the feedback on my diagnosis. Immediate action, I don't know what happens to me, I don't know if I'm alive or not. And all staff also behaving with me very nicely, I don't have any problem there. I don't feel that I'm patient and I feel that I've become a good friend. I was taken very good care by the doctor and his team and the entire staff of Manipal. Things went very smooth. I got the right treatment from the right doctor. With the support of a full team of ICU group, and definitely I need to say a lot of thanks to the obstructive and gynecology group of Manipal. Because the first day too, at the end of the release, they have supported me a lot. Often when people hear the word surgery, they take a step back, they're uncomfortable, they're scared, they're nervous and all of that is fine. What you need to do is to think about what life would be after surgery. Don't worry too much about the risks, it's when you are able to stay positive, you're actually contributing to the success of your own surgery. Being a woman, please take care of yourself, be healthy yourself so that you can keep your family, your entire team of your family, your loving people to be healthy. I think one of the messages that I want to give women out there especially is, cancer is totally treatable, it's not a terminal disease, yes it has side effects. I think I have a glamorous CEO look now because of chemotherapy with all my gray hair. We are women who work at home, we have a little pain, we ignore all of this, everyone has a housewife, a working woman, whatever it is, everyone should check up once in a year. And I tell everybody that whatever happens, just talk to the doctors. Because doctors are really nice and they are the only people who can tell you what exactly to be done. We have to cherish this energy that we have and we have to hold on to the strength that we have and whatever will be the difficult phase in life, it will pass. And to reach anywhere you want to move, you know, being at home, doing whatever we are doing, you will not be able to be the superwoman you want to be, right? So move from where you are and then go get what you want. All through my radiation I have worked through, that's what I feel. I feel we women are so strong that if we decide up here that we want to survive, we will do it. So it's all about this inner strength of women and the power which we carry and we spread. So as women, I would say if you decide, you can go get it.