Sept. 28, 2021
Share Your Story: Pravoth Gill
Pravjoth (Prav) is a 20-year-old, young entrepreneur, and a student at Birmingham City University studying Business Management. Prav owns and manages her own company which sets to become a platform providing personalized fitness and nutrition plans targeting people with disabilities and medical conditions. Prav is also an endometrial cancer survivor.
- 02:46: I used to get bullied quite a lot in my school and I developed an eating disorder.
- 04:29: We ended up switching to another gynecologist and that's when he figured it all out.
- 06:40: Monday morning me and my mother went to the hospital.
- 09:08: It made sense to me why all of that happened—six years of symptoms.
- 11:38: They wanted to test to see if chemotherapy therapy drugs were on the table.
- 13:17: I had a bad infection from it.
- 14:58: They managed to do the hysterectomy.
- 18:19: What was it like for other family members including your sister?
- 19:30: What was your worst moment?
- 21:29: What was your best moment during that cancer journey?
- 23:22: What is the one thing you wish you had known at the very beginning of your cancer journey?
- 24:01: If you could only do one thing to improve health care in the UK where you live, what would it be and why?
- 26:16: When you're a young woman having your period is enough of a pain.
- 28:12: When I had those heavy periods, I was put into the mini pill just to suppress it.
- 30:25: Thriver Rapid Fire Questions
- 31:54: Aside from Cancer U, what is one resource you recommend for cancer patients and caregivers?
Resources
- Find Prav online: https://linktr.ee/pravjothgill
- Watch Prav’s videos
- Prav’s company Movement, Fitness & Nutrition
- Accelerating Rare Cancer Research
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