The Pakistani-British neuroscientist based in Canada, Nadia Chaudhri, has been winning hearts on Twitter. The 44-year-old has been battling Stage 3 Ovarian cancer for the last year and is well aware that her days are numbered but netizens are celebrating her indomitable spirit.
Last year when she learnt that her metastatic ovarian cancer she decided to talk to her six-year-old son about her terminal illness. She is now in palliative care at McGill University Health Centre's and preparing her son that she may never come back home. As heart-breaking the reality may sound her efforts in facing death, creating awareness about ovarian cancer and preparing her young one for the hard truth has moved netizens she now has 142.9K followers on Twitter. Here is the story on how she has been preparing her son about her health condition:
A neuroscience professor at Concordia University, Chaudhari's Twitter page is full of moments she spends with her family especially her son, punctuated by the painful reality of her health condition. Her cancer was first diagnosed in 2020 June even though she went through Chemotherapy sessions by spring the disease was back and the doctors revealed that it is terminal. In May 2021 she told her son about her disease. This is her tweet:
Born and raised in Karachi, Chaudhri was 17 when she left her home country Pakistan.
The pinned tweet on her profile shows her sun eating a mango, in the post she writes about her parent's house in Karachi which was surrounded by mango trees. As a child, she would sit in the branches and devour sun-ripened mangoes. The photo of her son doing the same definitely has a special place in her heart.
Her son now has a savings account:
The mother confesses, "I am flooding my Sun with presents. Anything that will remind him of Mama. Today as he left the hospital he said ‘see you tomorrow, although you might also be dead.’ That hurt until I realized he knew I wasn’t coming home from this hospital visit."
She also painted for him.
As they say children have there own way of understanding grief, "My Sun made a family portrait. He’s captured so many details. My Moon’s hat and beard. Our matching skin tones. My earring & bald head. He is the center of a family hug. I love it & I wish we were smiling."
Chaudhri has been an inspiration to many and will leave behind her a huge legacy through her work.
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