When I was I class 12th, during the month of November in the year 2011, I got high fever which did not subside even after having medicines given by my doctor. A week passed and I was taken to another doctor whose verdict was that I had gotten malaria.
For the next 20 days, I was treated for malaria. I was on the medication of Quinine, one of the bitterest medicines ever. The fever did not subside and my health started to deteriorate. I lost 12 kilograms and kept fainting regularly.
My worried family took me to another doctor for a second opinion. He said that I had Tuberculosis. Then for the next one month I was treated for tuberculosis. Two months had already passed and my board exams were nearing. My studies took a hit. Panicked, my family took me to Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow. The doctors there were amazed at the sorry state of medical diagnosis in Lucknow. They told me that I did not have malaria or tuberculosis but typhoid. I got the proper treatment in SGPGI and I started to recover.
By the time I got well it had already been mid February. My board exams were to start in the first week of March. I started studied very hard for them but could just get 68.6%. Having gotten 91.2% in my class 10th exams and having been a good student all my life, I was shattered. But I did not lose the faith in myself and started studying hard for the engineering entrance exams. I could not get through the most coveted exam IIT-JEE, but I aced the state entrance exams. I got admission in the best college of the state and one of the most coveted and one of the oldest engineering colleges in India, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute in the Electrical Engineering branch.
My four months got wasted, I was completely bed ridden, had a really poor performance in the board exams but I did not lose faith in myself and worked really hard for a month to make it to one of the best engineering colleges in India.
This is one of the most difficult situations I faced and I got through it because of my resilient nature and hard work.