Winners

Thought Thought (Day 39: 8-Aug-2013)

Never Ever Quit. 

Soon after her little bundle of joy arrived, Karka kept complaining of mild pain in the chest more often than ever. Elders at home and her husband narrowed it down to motherhood and that it was because she was not nursing the baby. Karka too accepted the pain with guilt, since she was not nursing the baby due to medical conditions and was advised not to by the doctors.

Months passed but her pain did not vanish.  Home remedies and pain related treatment did not help. A TV show on breast cancer set a spark of doubt in her. She approached  a cancer institute and was diagnosed with what she feared it would be.

All the chemo, bad appetite, weight loss and balding head pushed her into depression. This in turn took a toll on her family as well. She stopped caring for her little child as she thought she would anyway die before the kid knew its mother well.

A long lost friend hers heard of the plight and decided to help her. She did not meet her or call her up to provide moral support. All she did was send a HUGE poster with a note to Karka’a husband to put it up in a place that Karka would see most of the time.

The poster irritated Karka and she deemed her friend to be insensible. She screamed that her friend did not know what she was going through, that it was always easy to advice and also tried to destroy the poster. But her husband knew the best thing to do was to keep it where it was.

As days went by, the words in the poster started making sense to her. It had these powerful sentence “Winners never quit and Quitters never win.” It was telling her to get up and live her life to fullest. Karka then decided to have one rule is life - “Never Quit” and every time she had a bad day, she remembered the rule of her life.

Days turned to weeks, weeks to months and months to a year and she fought her cancer and she won. She is a survivor, she is a winner.