Part 1: Department of PHO, KMC, Manipal.

Is there any proper definition for good and bad, right and wrong?

No.

Your real need decides wrong and right. 

All needs are not real. Hence all those you think as good and bad will not be good and bad as such.

Anything genuinely needed is good and right and anything genuinely not needed is bad and wrong.

Anything that comes in right time and right place is good and right, and anything that comes in wrong time and wrong place is bad and wrong. 

Sometimes even the honey or medicine or food given in wrong time and wrong place can be bad and wrong.

Here comes our department of PHO in KMC Manipal with less of claims and, perfectly and sufficiently more of flames as a right choice when you are really in need. 

A department of PHO: 

With less of words and more of works.

With less of talks, more of walks in real terms.

With no formalities at the cost of real spirituality.

That is the department of PHO in KMC Manipal we could feel and experience. 

Things work here in this department of PHO as if it is in a perfect automated system.

The above is the least way in the least words we can describe about the department of PHO.

It was our true luck, true to say our true luck, that we could reach here in this department of PHO for the treatment of our seventeen year old son after being diagnosed with osteo sarcoma. 

Success or failure doesn't matter: the attitude and approach, sincerity and dedication with clear cut knowledge and plans only matters.

Life is not about what you get. Life is about what do you take from and how do you take what you got.

How do you take and what do you take from decides what a thing you have got is. 

A flower can be made into mud and the mud can be made into flower. 

The things are the way you take and in the  way and direction you turn to.

Initially, with all our deeply in-felt shockwaves when we knew our son has cancer called osteo sarcoma, we went to Aster MIMS, at Calicut in Kerala, and were almost going to decide to go with the treatment therein.

We were also having in our mind many other options, like Proton (Apollo) in Chennai, JIPMER in Pondicherry, Regional Cancer Center (RCC) in Trivandrum, MVR Cancer Center in Calicut and Malabar Cancer Centre (MCC ) very near to our native place.

It was then, when we were at Aster MIMS in Calicut to get the first ever opinion as to what to do and as to how and in which direction we need to move, we got an advise/call from a doctor friend in Manglore, advising us very emphatically that "don't allow anyone to touch your son, directly come to Manglore. Anyone who happens to do biopsy is better advised to do surgery for him too".

It was indirectly an advise/call to us saying to go to Dr Navneeth S Kamat in Manglore.

It was also a call to say that the biopsy shouldn't be done by anyone else, rather should be done only by Dr Navneet S Kamat, the best choice one can have in orthopedic oncological surgery, one of the best orthopaedic oncology surgeon almost in the whole state of Karnataka, even in south India.

Hearing this advice, we didn't hesitate or delay further, even the least. That much courage and confidence was there in such an advise/call, and that much courage and confidence was instilled in us by such a call/advise.

Dropping all our idea to do biopsy and treatment from Aster MIMS in Calicut, and setting aside all our options to do the treatment anywhere else, we returned from Aster MIMS, Calicut and the very next day we did set out for Manglore to meet Dr Navneet S Kamat, with MRI report we have already got in our hands.

Just seeing and hearing from Dr Navneeth became half the healing. 

We got the complete undestanding as to what is what. 

Also, as a doctor of great humility, maturity and wisdom, he instilled in us the courage and confidence of clear cut understanding required in this very critical time 

Dr Navneet, without needing to wait further and without needing to give an appointment to any other date, did the biopsy then and there and did send the same for the test to KMC, Manipal.

It was through Dr Navneet S Kamat we came to know about Dr. Vasudev Bhat and his department of PHO in KMC, Manipal. 

True to say we were getting another window to see an another sky.

If I put it in Dr Navneeth's own words, while he was suggesting / referring us to Dr Vasudev Bhat, those words were like this : 

"I would myself opt and go to (or suggest ) Dr Vasudev Bhat for chemotherapy even if the patient is my own son".

Again he said:

"The beautiful and luxurious structure of a hospital building will not help in the quality of the treatment. 

"The beautiful and luxurious structure will help only to increase your bill. 

"For the chemotherapy treatment, I would suggest you to go to Dr Vasudev Bhat, PHOPD, KMC Manipal, as the best available anywhere in India".

Dr Navneet did put his words in a very simple and humble way with great clarity and confidence for no further doubts for us.

Those were and are the words echoing in my ears throughout and even now, and even when we have reached almost at the end of our planned journey/treatment/chemotherapy. 

And those were the words that gave us the real confidence and courage.

With the courage and confidence instilled in us by Dr Navneet, and by getting the biopsy result within two days which was mostly unlikely, we did set out for PHOPD, KMC Manipal for the first time. 

That was on Friday, 28 July 2023. 

(To be continued.....)