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Celebrating His Second Chance at Life Again

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2020; 41(03): 400

DOI: DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_221_20

Abstract

Sooraj was an athletic teenager who is diagnosed to have blood cancer. He meets his donor and undergoes stem cell transplantation. Finally, he celebrates his second chance at life. The author pens down this experience in the configuration of a poem.

Publication History

Received: 08 May 2020

Accepted: 11 May 2020

Article published online:
28 June 2021

© 2020. Indian Society of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.)

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Abstract

Sooraj was an athletic teenager who is diagnosed to have blood cancer. He meets his donor and undergoes stem cell transplantation. Finally, he celebrates his second chance at life. The author pens down this experience in the configuration of a poem.

Sooraj was a bright, adolescent,

An all-star athlete in his hometown…

When he first began feeling tired,

And exhaustion brought his world crumbling down….

Concerned about their son's lack of vigor,

His parents led him to the labs…

Sudden, painful diagnosis of the blood cancer,

Was nothing short of a cruel jab…

At present, the only hope to save him was a stem cell transplantation,

Although intriguing, he lay in a grave situation…

Albeit no one in the family could help him right then,

Since HLA matching was a requisite obligation…

Helpless and feeble his family was worn out,

Despite their persistent efforts and ventures throughout…

Facing the odds, all along, until they found someone,

Who mirror-matched their son's report beyond all question…

Hooray! Finally, his cure came from Manohar,

Biologically unrelated, yet fully matched donor…

After facing much trouble and continuous pain,

Sooraj set out to celebrate his life again.

Acknowledgment

The author gratefully acknowledges the support of Dr. Anuradha Kusum, Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Swami Ram Nagar, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, for her kind help towards the critical appraisal of the poem.

Conflict of Interest

There are no conflicts of interest.

Address for correspondence

Dr. Manish Raturi
Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University
Swami Ram Nagar, Jolly Grant, Dehradun - 248 016, Uttarakhand
India   

Publication History

Received: 08 May 2020

Accepted: 11 May 2020

Article published online:
28 June 2021

© 2020. Indian Society of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.)

Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
A-12, 2nd Floor, Sector 2, Noida-201301 UP, India