Thy Name Is Life

Download or read book Thy Name Is Life written by Sujoy Roy and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did he find his llfe In the game of soccer? Or he used to explore life by mingling with the people around him? Probably both While watching soccer, been played in various parts of the world, he became a die hard fan of Arsenal Football Club of London, being impressed by their struggling history. On the other hand, giving up his dream of beingg a great footballer due to financial hardships, he acquireda job of a financial analyst in a US based company. He commenced his career there industriously and by virtue of his virtuosic performance, bagged a promotion within a short spelI. He became very popular amongst his colleagues and beyond. He also led the office football team to victory in Bengaluru Office Soccer League. It was in the end of April 2016 that Avik found his right hand and lower limb not functioning well. all. Getting no result from medicines, he had to undergo MRI followed by surgery and thus it was detected malignant cancer that too of a very rare kind, Glloblastoma. The family decided to get him treated at TMH Bombay, but trouble was stll round the corner. 'The block' which was given for biopsy was not handed over to the family even on the day they were leaving for Mumbai. Thus began Avik's and his family's long battle with the deadly disease. After two long, painful months of undergoing radiation and chemotherapy, it seemed that Avik had finally won the battle and the family returned to their base. But little did they know that this joy was a short lived one. While Avik was trying his level best to get his former strength back, his nightmare' was just lurking in in the shadows and planning his' deadly onslaught. This brought him back to Mumbai His last hope was to undergo shunting which provided temporary repose. But Avik could not win the deadly battle. Avik Roy died 42 days after his shunting, in the ICU, when the cancer ca which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him, creating a huge vacuum in the hearts of the people he had touched.