Pune: A 50-year-old Sameer Bhide survived from a rare type of brain haemorrhage which changed his life completely. He suffered from a rare genetic condition called cerebral vascular abnormality from birth. This led him to suffer from a brain haemorrhage in which survival chances are around one in one million. Now, he has not only recovered from this but has also written a book narrating his experience.
Bhide who is born in Pune and brought up in Mumbai is a resident of the United States of America. He kept his motivation high and fought against the disease successfully. In his bid to tell his motivational story, he has recently written a book on his life-changing event. The book titled 'One Fine Day' is set for release on December 8.
In 2017, he suffered from a haemorrhagic stroke that led to a month-long coma and two brain surgeries. This event brought chaos and divorce in his life. Before the stroke, he had worked on technology and management roles in the USA for 20 plus years.
Bhide, said, "It took major tragedies for me to fully realise the one-fine-day message. I don’t want anyone else to wait for a tragedy to happen to realise the message fully. I sincerely hope my message in One Fine Day serves as a wake-up call that we are all one fine day away from a new normal, however big or small. It reminds you to be grateful and thankful for each day you are here and to not get too carried away or plan too far ahead. I certainly don’t want to scare anyone, but to only raise awareness of this and help others to better prepare, physically and emotionally.”
According to The Handbook of Neurosurgery by Mark Greenberg, the genetic condition that Bhide was suffering from develops in about 3,300 to 58,800 people in the US. This resulting in haemorrhage is even rare - it only happens to 86 to 1,730 people per year in the US. Many of those people die.
Bhide's life physical health is not yet recovered to what it was before the stroke. He walks with the help of a cane now. He mentioned, " One Fine Day is the story of my recovery, one that took me around the world many times and that encompassed not only the best of Western medicine, technology, and care but also the best of Eastern holistic healing practices and care.”
In the book, he has also written about his experience with experience with Eastern and Western medicines, with Ayurveda treatment.
