Doing the impossible

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!” ―?Sylvester Stallone,?Rocky Balboa. These were the words that kept playing in my head in a loop while I lay on my bed in the ICU ward physically paralyzed from head to toe in different ways.

It has just been a little over 2 weeks of passing of my mother on 10th of November 2020 and I was recovering from the tragic loss that left a void in my life, another tsunami hits me in the form of a cerebral strokes that got me crashing to the floor. Unable to stand up or even balance myself I was rushed to the hospital where I was diagnosed with something called as Wallenberg syndrome for the benefit of all …. Wallenberg syndrome is a rare condition in which an infarction, or stroke, occurs in the lateral medulla. The lateral medulla is a part of the brain stem. Oxygenated blood does not get to this part of the brain when the arteries that lead to it are blocked. A stroke can occur due to this blockage.

Having been married little over a year ago with my wife and a 4-month-old son at home, life had hit me real hard and wanted to keep me down there for long as doctors said it will take at least 6 months for me to even sit up by myself as I have been lucky even to be alive. This is when I told to myself and the doc what I firmly believe in, there is nothing called as luck it’s just hard work and determination, I will be up on my feet and running in 6 months as I have a wife and my son to look after and to prove my point I walked out of the hospital (Of course with the support of my brother and a walker) after being in the ICU for 7 days and later in the recovery room for 3.

Now 6 months later after a lot of hard work, determination, constant falling and getting up and all the therapy finally I was ready.

On the 15th of May 2021 which marks my 40th birthday I gave myself the best gift ever any one could ever give by running for the first time in 6 months and doing something everybody thought was impossible when they first saw me in the hospital 6 months ago. The tears of joy in my wife’s eyes were worth everything.

I am sharing this with you not to boast about myself but to motivate those who remain down there when life hits, giving up all hope and loosing faith in themselves in various situations in life. All I want to say is if your determination is extraordinarily strong and you work extremely hard to achieve your goal putting all your heart and soul into it, then at times, even the impossible can be made possible.