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Last post: My Story: Next One “How are you going these days Nikhil?” It’d been literally half a year since I’d seen this group of friends – my med student buddies – and I had to do the rounds. This question came up a lot. And almost always, it was about my health. “So yeah I’m actually good!” I’d always start, smiling and gesturing wildly so as […]
Last post: My Story: Next One Being a patient isn’t easy. Especially when you’re in hospital in an emergency situation, as I was last week… For those who didn’t know – I presented to emergency last week, midway through chemo, with shortness of breath and they ended up finding a new cancer on my fourth rib on the right. Don’t worry though – I’m fine! They removed […]
Last post: My Story: Next One Latest Updates at bottom of post. Video of this here: It happened again. In the other eye. But it’s OK. I didn’t lose that one =] Update here: So this morning, I left a weird status update on my personal Facebook. I know a few friends and family are worried about this, as some of you reading this may be, so […]
Last post: My Story: Next One Preparing for an Impending Food Crisis. This was my entry into an international essay competition to pick delegates for the annual, amazingly inspiring Youth Agricultural Summit (find out more about it here). Results come out in March. Wish me Luck!! Well… I actually won this! And got to go to the International Youth Ag Summit – and we delivered our decleration […]
Last post: My Story: Next One Last #HIH: Next #HIH: Chemo was about to start. At this stage I was ready. I’d taken a step back from the depression and shock of diagnosis. I’d questioned all my doubts and fears and was now focusing on being as healthy and as happy as possible. The only things I could control. I’d locked myself up in my […]
Last post: My Story: Next One As many of you know, I’ve been preparing for this bike ride. And I’m glad to announce… formally, well, on this blog, that only 2 months after I was done with chemo, I managed to complete the Sydney 200km Ride to Conquer Cancer! I was scared about it for months… But when I arrived at the start-line… just seeing so many […]
This was pretty much a copy-pasted conversation I had with a friend asking for UCAT tips, so sorry if it’s not that well worded. In the time I did it – the UCAT was called the UCAT! But the principles, time sensitive nature of the test, and test taking skills are essentially the same. I figured I’d put up one of these so I wouldn’t have to do them individually any more and to help you guys out =P For those who don’t know, the UMAT – now known as UCAT – is a challenging pre-medical test every prospective doctor needs to […]
Last post: My Story: Next One Effective altruism is a movement that’s revolutionising the way we give to the poor. Peter Singer described it as “one that combines both the heart and the head.” The heart empathising with and wanting help the less well off; the head ensuring our efforts to do so went the furthest. That’s where the concept of effectiveness comes in. A hundred dollars […]
Last post: My Story: Next One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufl4rfmPgo&list=UUAKTrVV6OAUq1O1odxC1Bfw < A talk I gave recently on this topic: Recently on Facebook, a few pages dedicated to cancer awareness asked patients to describe themselves and how they feel in one word. Here’s an example. I liked how positive people’s responses were. I like how these pages are getting groups of people in tough times together. I loved […]
The other day, I was out to dinner and drinks with some friends. Amidst our casual banter about work, life and play we somehow got onto the topic of depression. It’s something that’s affected my friends, family and myself over my 3 years of being a patient. One of my friends said something that got to me. “Being told you’re depressed gives you an excuse to not try to get better. Maybe if people who say they’re depressed tried more, they wouldn’t be depressed.” He didn’t mean to be judgmental or mean about it, in fact, he was sincerely concerned for […]