Manjusha pawagi biography of barack

In 2014, at only 47-years-old, Manjusha Pawagi was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of leukemia. Prior to the diagnosis, Manjusha had already led several “lives”—first as a journalist, a mother to twins, a children’s author, a lawyer, and a family court judge—before her most recent experience as a cancer survivor and author of the memoir, Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy.

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.

Despite one in a million odds of finding a stem cell match and enduring the high-risk treatment, Manjusha didn’t just live to tell the tale. She lived to share her story in all of its messy, vulnerable, funny and touching glory.

We were lucky to sit down with Manjusha to talk about her experience before her keynote presentation at VHA’s 13^th annual Heart of Home Care Awards on April 3^rd, 2018.

She touched on her patient experience, the love and support that kept her going and her unique relationship with her “one in a million” donor.