This blog is the continuation of my book “Life with GBM Brain Cancer: Blessing in Disguise”, published on Amazon world wide. This book is a narration of my on-going struggle with the most aggressive of brain cancers called Glioblastoma Multiform (GBM). With half of the patients dying under 15 months after diagnosis, I feel lucky …
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Scan August 2022
Had yet another successful scan on 24th August this year and I was announced the result by my Oncologist Dr. Paul Mulholland almost a month later on September 26th over the telephonic appointment. The delay between the scan and the report was primarily due to the fact that firstly, with the divine grace, I am …
IIFT Alumni Meet – UK and Yuvraj Singh
My alma mater IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), hosted an alumni meet of UK and EU chapter in London on Friday 8th July in Grand Royale Hotel, at Hyde Park in London. We have around 150 alumni living in the UK and the meet was attended by around 38 alumni. It was co-ordinated and …
MRI Scan 07 May 2022
Even though I should have posted this MRI Scan result much earlier, but it was all procrastination on my behalf. Anyway, the MRI Scan was performed in UCLH (University College London Hospitals) on Saturday 07 May 2022. It was a normal torture to the body under the scanner and turned out to be the longest …
MRI Scan Jan 2022
My MRI Scans continued and the first scan for the year 2022 was held on Friday, January 21, 2022 at UCLH (University College London Hospitals) in Central London. As mentioned earlier, my Oncologist Dr. Mulholland who was treating me from MVCC (Mount Vernon Cancer Centre) from early 2016 till September 2021, had given me an …
Join Braintrust UK
During my scan meeting with Dr Mulholland on September 9th, 2021, he had advised me to contact a Brain Cancer charity/trust of the UK named ‘Braintrust’ (https://brainstrust.org.uk/), and gave the contact details of its co-founder, Dr Helen Bulbeck. I wrote an email to Helen in mid September and received an instant and ‘very encouraging’ reply …
MRI Scan September 2021
Dr. Mulholland had fixed the next scan date on September 3rd, 2021. I had settled down in my ‘garden house’ and had started to create the second edition of my book, along with the Hindi version of my website bjmanch.in and made it available at https://www.bjmanch.in/hi/. However, there have been a couple of minor issues …
My websites
Since I was rendered disabled as far as travelling and working in the London city was concerned (also mentioned in my book), I decided to launch my Internet based ventures, that I have always been passionate about, staying at home. The two websites that I have launched so far are as follows: www.GDFNow.org GDFNow.org actually stands …