The Story of a Cancer Survivor and his Daughter
Sangeetha and Parameshwaran - Father Daughter Duo |
TEDxSiddagangaInstituteofTechnology
• January 2019
Parameswaran - A 50 year chemical engineer by profession, an alumni of Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur is a victor of the battle that he had with death due to Cancer. He is a trustee of Friends of Max, a patient support group of CML (Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia) and GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal tumour) cancer patients.
Sangeetha Param - A 24 year old, author/poet/cancer advocate and a TEDx speaker is a survivor of depression who is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. She has authored 2 books, ‘Key to Acceptance’ and ‘Echoes in my Attic’.
The father- daughter duo are individually survivors but caregivers to each other are sharing their battles together on the TEDx platform.
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