Palliative care is perhaps the most difficult aspect of life-threatening diseases like cancer. It means different things to different people and as a society, we are only now beginning to understand palliative care and all its attendant nuances. Please read this post by Vijay who writes this from first hand experience. It touched me deeply. Please feel free to reblog it to your followers. It is important for people to know. Thank you Vijay, for this story.

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Kadam got off his bicycle and waited for a break in traffic to cross the road. He had time to grab a cup of tea before the hour-long journey.

He was quite proud of his bicycle. It took him wherever he wanted to go. It also helped to keep his wife, Sheela, in comfort. After he lost his job at the mill in distant Nagpur, he had moved to Pune to be near his sons. His sons had put up Kadam and his wife in a separate flat. Sheela occasionally hoped that the help from her sons would go beyond a fixed amount of money every month. She was worried about Kadam, doing all the cycling around for every little thing. But Kadam was quite content to be his own man. He did not want to burden anybody else with Sheela’s care.

Sheela was confined to bed with advanced cancer…

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