In my salad days I posted some supremely unflattering selfies. I was a photo newbie, a bearded amateur mugging for the camera. I’m happy to say that the results of. We watch the next two games of The NBA Finals at our apartment. I was worried with the Spurs losing home court advantage and going to Miami. But the Spurs are now.

The Curveball - Battling Cancer in Our First Year of Marriagewake up suddenly. I hear some drunk bros across the. Brooklyn night. I look at Seema. Sleep is nice. It’s our only escape from having.

The screaming bros. I continue staring at our white ceiling instead. I. grasp at distant memories to cheer myself. I find myself thinking about our. Charleston. I remember Seema’s bright. Rose Royce’s “I Wanna Get Next to You.” I see. B. I. G., Kishore.

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Kumar and Montel Jordan. I remember speeches from loved ones and our parents. I. remember these same friends settling for warm shots of gin after cleaning out. November night in 2. I see Seema and me on a.

Ashley River in front of our closest friends. Fall day. Seema looks like an Indian queen in her crimson.

Her dark hair and big, brown eyes are. The dupatta that hangs around my neck is tied in a.

Each orbit around the flames symbolizes the. Afterwards we perform the Satapadi, the seven steps we take. I didn’t realize the.

I assumed I’d have at least a few decades until. I want more time. I need more time. I feel like I'm not ready for this, and I can never let Seema know that. The bros continue to.

The last 4. 8 hours have been. Dad and Seema’s mom have flown up to. Dad is a cardio thoracic. India and ended up raising our family in a small.

Georgia. My bald head, eyes and nose are his own. He has a deep. commanding voice and is always ready sit back with a glass of wine and. He brings a calming presence to any situation.

As fate would have. Dad attended medical school with Seema’s mom in the mid 7. I lovingly. refer to her as Aai, the term for mother in Marathi. When pronounced correctly.

Aai” sounds like a truncated version of the noise an Ewok screams during a surprise. Endor. Aai is a successful OB- GYN who has an incredible bond with her.

She’s a few inches shorter than Seema, and when in motion, takes short. Her shoulder length hair hasn’t changed. I met her in 2. 00. She likes to laugh and takes immense pride in her. Seema is paired with a new. NYU Langone. Dad and Aai are with us during our first appointments. We try to keep up, but the conversation quickly becomes complex physician.

Our parents ask follow up questions that I would have never thought of. I’ve never been more thankful to have parents who fulfilled the Indian. The more we speak with. Seema and I are thrilled to learn this group actually has.

They are nothing like the doctor who gave us the original. They are patient, caring and empathetic. They become our Dream Team. Oncology, Radiology, and. Chemotherapy. Seema is young. She is smart. She is beautiful. She has so much potential.

I can feel the Dream Team pulling for her. They want. her to beat this just as much as I do. I didn’t think that was possible, but I. As we schedule and await. Seema’s first scans that will indicate the severity of the cancer, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the flood. I thought I had. everything planned out. I recently quit my strenuous job as a creative director.

Seema just graduated NYU Law School and had the entire summer free before. Los Angeles and she started a job at the prestigious law firm. With our newfound flexible. We would finally have time to enjoy New York City with each other and the. Seema would explore fashion and intern with a designer. I. would read the 4. I’ve ordered on Amazon over the past year but have never.

We would travel and explore the world together. I would work out more. I. would do yoga. I would meditate.

I would learn Muay Thai. We would get a dog. We would name him Huck. I would do stand- up comedy.

I would write movie scripts. Seema and my friends. We would make films. We would get into Sundance. We. would all become famous and buy adjacent farms in rural Georgia. We would. volunteer for causes we believe in and would eventually win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Congressional Medal of Freedom. Seema and I would attend a State Dinner.

Barack and Michelle. I’d make an off- the- cuff joke about Joakim Noah’s. President. He’d think I’m hilarious and would eventually quote me.

State of the Union. Cancer has other plans. All our dreams take a backseat as we are forced to deal. Watch My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend Of Everfree Online (2017). I feel like we’ve been cheated out of a unique window of. Seema begins her law.

Instead, we are on the phone with NYU trying to figure out the exact. Seema’s student health insurance will expire. In addition to uncertainties. Seema’s health, uncertainties about our future, family, and careers.

Dwelling on all of these. I. know this. So I search desperately for something, anything, to distract myself. Seema distracts herself by diving into the prose of Junot Diaz and Chimamanda Ngozi. Adichie. Since Johnny Walker has proven himself to be an.

I bury myself in the 2. NBA Finals instead. I bury. myself with a fanaticism normally reserved for televangelists and NYSE floor. The Finals are already a. Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs. I remember. watching last year. The Spurs were thirty seconds away from winning the.

Championship. The Larry O’Brien trophy and velvet ropes were brought out. The Spurs. were ready to pop the champagne. Then the Heat went on an improbable run. Ray Allen corner three that sent the game into overtime where. Spurs lost. The Heat emphatically closed out Game 7 in Miami and won the. Championship. The close- up of the Spurs bench in the final minutes of Game 7 told.

I now know all too well. How. quickly things slip away…. A year later, the. On one hand you have the. Heat, trying to achieve a threepeat which would propel Lebron into the next. NBA’s Mount Olympus and give more fodder for the pointless “Lebron. Jordan” debate. Then there are the Spurs.

They are old, banged up, and have. But despite their age, they have been rebuilt into a fast- paced. Coach Popovich. Like 9. I don’t like the Heat. I didn’t like Lebron leaving Cleveland. I didn’t. like his smug assumption of winning 7 straight Championships.

I don’t like Heat. I don’t like DJ Khaled. I don’t like Gloria Estefan. I’m not a Spurs fan by.

But the week after the diagnosis, the NBA Finals becomes something. This has moved beyond a battle of. I need. the Spurs to win. I need to know that it’s possible to rebound from a horrific. The fact. that our lives share nothing in common with NBA athletes doesn’t matter. I need. to see a comeback. As the day of Seema’s.

Spurs. The teams have split the first two games in San Antonio. The series shifts to. Miami and the Spurs are already in a hole. The Heat have stolen home court.

Miami on their home court in the Playoffs. I pace our apartment.

Twitter and watching ESPN analysis searching for any. Spurs advantage. I watch and loudly narrate Youtube highlights from the. Finals analyzing weaknesses in the Miami offense. Seema alternates. Americanah. When we drive to NYU Langone for her scan, I try. Game 3 and the impeding uphill climb.

Spurs and ourselves. The doctors allow me to. Seema for the scans, so I sit with her as she changes into a hospital. Dad and Aai wait. Seema’s first scan is a PET- CT scan, which stands. Positron Emission Tomography – Computer Tomography Scan.

It’s an advanced. Seema is given orders to. The drink contains barium sulfate, which acts.

From its. look and consistency, barium sulfate resembles a combination of chalk. But luckily this particular bottle of barium sulfate.

Seema says the artificial flavor barely masks the awful. This is the most.

I’ve ever had in my life.”. The grimace on Seema’s. Starbucks is completely missing an opportunity to launch an Elk. Semen Mocha Liquid Chalk Frappuccino. I hold Seema’s hand as.

PET- CT room. The. Seema must pass. through. Seema scoots from the gurney to the flat slab that will slowly inch. I stand next to my horizontal wife as doctors. As they speak to each other from across the room, it feels like we. Stargate. I sense myself becoming more and more nervous about the.

My heart begins beating faster. I fear the. cancer has spread everywhere, even to Seema’s soft earlobes. I think about ways. No need. Amongst the din. I hadn’t noticed Seema nonchalantly. The Bachelorette. They talk about the.