 I am Raksha Meenayar, going to be 50 in the next couple of months, September to be precise and I was detected with breast cancer on 25th February 2020 and I started my chemo on March 7th in Manipal Hospital under the able guidance of Dr. Shabir Zaveeri and Dr. Amit Rautan and the wonderful wonderful cheerful nurses and staff of Manipal Hospital and being able to get this sort of a treatment being born in this era where the medical facilities have such tremendous future and also being with friends and family. I mean I can't tell you enough how overwhelming the amount of encouragement and support that I've been getting from my husband, my daughter, my son and also my really good friends. So my journey in Manipal amidst the COVID which I must mention all my treatment was during the COVID time and it's still on. So it was so well done I had absolutely no problems. Everything went on smoothly, my blood tests, to my various other tests and I'm in the far end of my chemo. I'm a marathon runner. I have done around 30-odd marathons, running martial marathons and I just did the very famous Vagamon archival that was in January 2020 and I'm proud to say that I was one of the six women who actually completed and did the 100 kilometers Oxfam in February. Besides all that the news that I've had breast cancer which incidentally runs in my family with my grandma and two of my aunts from paternal as well as maternal side dealing with it didn't come that much of a shock to me but I thought I was still very young to deal with it but once I started my treatment with these wonderful people with these wonderful staff of Manipal Hospital. Sincerely thank all the doctors who've been treating me. Dr. Shafi is a very Dr. Amit Rautan and also the counsellors special mention to the counsellors Shraddha and Mr. Chair. They've been absolutely wonderful coming and meeting me every time I'm undergoing the chemo giving me the right advice, the right counselling that I need. To all the women I would want to say three really you know things that I have probably learned during the treatment is first of all you need to get your checkups regularly especially up to the age of 40 and more so if you have a history in your family. Secondly dealing and accepting that you have breast cancer and dealing with it with positivity and last but not the least one of my favorites is bouncing back stronger than I thought.