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Between Breath and Swallow: A memoir of science, survival, and slow victories

Between Breath and Swallow: A memoir of science, survival, and slow victories

Dhiman, Ravinder

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN13: 9798258580672
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 24 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

More than year long journey through Tubes, Surgeries, Science, Survival, by a baby named Nachiketa. Most newborns begin life with a simple act. They breathe. They feed. They grow. Nachiketa began differently. Born on November 16, 2024, he could barely breathe and could not swallow. Within hours, he was inside a neonatal intensive care unit, surrounded by machines, decisions, and a medical vocabulary his parents had never prepared for. What followed was not a single surgery, but a year-long journey through multiple procedures, complications, and quiet uncertainties. Tubes replaced natural pathways. Feeding became a process. Survival became structured. Told in a rare and powerful narrative voice, that of Nachiketa himself. Between Breath and Swallow is not just a medical story. It is a deeply human account of resilience where science, parenting, and patience intersect in ways that are rarely seen but often lived. Through intensive care units, emergency interventions, home-based medical routines, and one final reconstruction that restored a basic human function. This book documents a journey that is both clinically real and emotionally universal. It is also a story about the people behind survival, parents who learn medicine without training, doctors who work within uncertainty, and a child who grows, adapts, and responds, in ways science is still trying to fully understand. This is not a story of dramatic miracles. It is a story of slow victories.

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