From Bliss to Chaos to Understanding

From Bliss to Chaos to Understanding
My Cancer Journey
A Personal View Of My Life’s Struggles
By Vikki Ramdass
 

When Vikki Ramdass was into her first year of her doctoral thesis in 2018, she was diagnosed with Stage 1, triple-negative breast cancer. She had to stop her doctorate and undergo treatment, the journey From Bliss, to Chaos, to Understanding that this memoir describes.
Many Trinidadians know Vikki through her extensive charitable work.  True to Mahatma Gandhi’s adage “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”, she represented Trinidad and Tobago, through Lions International in several Caribbean countries and is the holder of twenty gold medals from charitable walks. She was bestowed the Mere Desh Committee Award for Community Service for Indian Arrival Day in 2012 and the National Youth Award for Volunteerism by the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development in 2014.
After her breast cancer diagnosis, Vikki became an advocate for breast cancer survivors. She contributed articles on survivorship with “Elephants and Tea”, a US-based online magazine to help adolescent and young adults with cancer. Amazed at the support that she received over the years of writing, she has published From Bliss, to Chaos, to Understanding to provide comfort to cancer patients, survivors and caretakers in the future.


ISBN 978-976-8244-56-7
40 pages
Fully illustrated in colour