Taiyyab, a 15-year old teenager from Lucknow, had been diagnosed with Leukemia, a rare kind of blood cancer, six months ago. Ever since then, the teenager has been fighting the disease at the chemotherapy ward of Lucknow’s Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI). The youngster, dealing stoically with his condition, has turned his treatment into a story of surgical strikes against dreaded monsters.
The youngster turned his body into a kingdom and the disease as fiends that have attacked it. The story chronicles the course of the disease and doctors have been turned into commandos, who are fighting the dreaded disease monster for months.
According to the 15-year-old’s story, the kingdom of Taiyyab was a prosperous one until seven months back, when it was attacked by a monster named diarrhoea. Within three days, the king of Leukaemia too launched a missile attack on Taiyyab using lymphoblastic missiles. At that time, Taiyyab sought help from a smaller kingdom called Pratibha Nursing Home, where he was advised to seek help from the SGPGI State of Lucknow. The supreme general of PGI State, Dr Sonia Nityanand gave a command to Dr Syed, Dr Sanjeev and Dr Sujit, to protect Taiyyab State and since then all the commanders are fighting together to protect it.
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Thus, in Taiyyab’s story, the doctors become commandos, tablets they use turn into bullets and injections become fighter jets.
On being asked about what prompted him to turn his condition into the story of surgical strikes, Taiyyab said, “My younger brother wants to be a commando. He keeps on talking about the Army and inspired by his stories, I have turned my treatment into the story of Army strikes and battles.”
Dr Anshul Gupta, who is treating Taiyyab at SGPGI is quite impressed with the young patient. “He knows he has a deadly disease, but he is fighting and has not slipped into depression, unlike others,” says Dr Gupta.