Shormistha Mukherjee | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

There’s Nothing Funny about Cancer Yet You Cannot Help But Grin While Reading Shormistha Mukherjee’s Book Cancer, You Picked The Wrong Girl – A True StoryThe author shares her “No-Holds-Barred Account of Her Journey Navigating a Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment”. Despite Knowing What is coming, the part where the author gets her tests don and goes to collect her reports sets your heart pounding. Shormistha’s story could be the story of thirds of women in similar situations. What makes the book endearing and unputdownable is the candor with six

Shormistha’s True Story | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Her Musings Vary from Mundane to Melodrama; Her Thoughts Wander from Wondering Who Gets to Decide which channel to play on tv in the hospital waiting room to comparing an appointment an appointment with a doctor to finding a matching blouse for a sari. At the chemotherapy bed, She Eyes The Kidney Tray to Tell Herself, “What Lovely, Shiny Kateris. Perfect for Dahi ‘!!

Write way

Co-founder of flying cursor interactive, a digital agency in Mumbai, a blogger since 2006 Shormistha has also written a series of short stories. Cancer, You Picked ..is her first book. “When I was diagnosed with cancer, blogging sometimes helped me deal with the anxiety,” She shares with us over the phone from Mumbai.

A Couple of Publishing Editors Approached Her With a Request to Write a Book. “When they asked, I was undergoing treatment. Topic. I was not in a statement to anything.

Shormistha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and her treatment, which included 16 rounds of chemo and 20 rounds of radiation, ended in 2019. Feel Everything Again LIKE Walking Into, CAFES, Meeting Friends, Going to the Office … I want to saveer every moment.

Of experiences

Shormistha say that her book is not a self-heelp manual, Nor there any tips. “I am not an oncologist and cannot give tips. Find Comfort and Find Something to Hold on to, then That That That That Fine. It is just my story. “

Shormistha decides that she’ll write this book the way she wants to. “I discussed this with my publishers. This book is going to be the most honest version of what i want through Mastectomy, Nipple Removing, Constipation … it is such a large part of what happened to me, how could I gloss over it? I would be so jealous of my friend Proud of myself and was not judging myself … but I want to include this in the book.

Reliving the time

When Shormistha Started Writing, She Knew it would be hard but it is also meant coming to terms with it. “Lots of Times, We Go Through Something Life-Altering But Are To Focus At that Time and Doing Process Everything. Reflect on it to write about it laater … it is no longer impending doom.

Would She Advise more Cancer Survivors to talk about their experiences? “The Responsibility of Getting more people to talk about it does not lie only with the cancer patient. Denial. It is such a widespread disease, there’s no harm in discusing and in knowing what it is like for that who are going through it and understanding it It you are not going to get it, “She Laughs.