Cancer Yoddha- Sonali Bendre

Actress Sonali Bendre was diagnosed with

metastatic cancer in July 2018 and spent
months in New York undergoing treatment.
She returned to India in December 2018
after nearly five months in the United States.
Sonali is a cancer survivor who has
disseminated positivism and knowledge
about the disease over the years.

Sonali Bendre's life was turned upside down

when she was diagnosed with "high-grade
cancer" that had spread throughout her body. The actress had to travel to the United States
with her husband, Goldie Behl, for therapy.

Sonali took break from her cancer treatment. She stated in a recent interview that she did
not wish to visit New York. "I was apprehensive about visiting New York. My husband was the
one who wanted to go. Throughout the flight, I struggled with him. 'What are you doing?'
Here, we have excellent doctors. 'What are you doing taking me away for?' My house, my
life... in three days, we simply packed our belongings and left, and I had no idea what was
going on.

"She was like, 'Let's at least talk to the physicians here,' and her husband was just calm and
focused the entire time." He was organizing during the day and at night, as New York was
waking up; so, he was organizing, day and night. So, she received him and actually cried on
the plane about the whole affair. She cried all the way through the flight; she was really
venting," Sonali revealed.

When she read the reports, though, she realized the enormity of the situation. She arrived in
New York, and the next day, they visited the doctor. He examined everything, and they had
sent all of their tests, and informed them that they are in the fourth stage, with a 30% chance
of survival. That hit her hard; I turned to Goldie and said, "Thank God, you got me here."
Goldie constantly says, "I'd rather feel like I over-reacted and over-spent tomorrow than
under-reacted and regret that I should have done it." They didn't have time for that, and
they weren't told it was the fourth stage, but Goldie had been reading about it and
suspected it."

Sonali remarked at the India Today Conclave 2019 in Delhi that her initial reaction was to
blame herself.

"'Your lifestyle was never like that,' everyone claimed. 'What happened to you?' She was truly
convinced that it was her fault and that she was to blame. In New York, she saw a psychiatrist.
She was thinking, "I don't know what's going on with me." I'm not a pessimist; I think a lot of

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optimistic things. Is it possible that I'm hallucinating? Do I have negative ideas that I'm burying
so deep in my sub conscience that I'm not aware of them? "I needed to know what was going
on with me," Sonali explained.

"In my life, the line he said represents hoarding." 'Sonali, cancer is caused by genetics or a
virus,' he explained. Because I work with ideas, I would be the richest guy on the planet if
thoughts could cause or cure cancer.' "It felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders,"
she added.

'It was a wake-up call for me to start living for today, not tomorrow,' she said.
Sonali revealed that starting therapy for the disease, which she claims is
worse than the cancer itself, served as a wake-up call for her to begin living
for today rather than tomorrow. The actress said that she didn't do anything
extraordinary to gather strength and courage, and that others could have
done more. "You gain power the minute you declare, "I do not want to die." I did nothing
particularly noteworthy. Because I'm a well-known figure, it's possible that it caught people's
attention. She believed that there are tens of thousands of unsung heroes who have
accomplished far more than I have. Unmein jyada jyada jyada jyada jyada jyada jyada jyada
strong But, without a doubt, it served as a wake-up call for me to begin living for today rather
than tomorrow "she expressed herself.

Sonali took to Instagram and shared a collage of pictures -- the first showed her in a hospital,
while the second was a more glamorous shot. "How time flies... today when I look back, I see
strength, I see weakness but most importantly I see the will to not let the C word define how
my life will be after it..." she wrote in her caption.