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Girl with brain tumor secures distinction in ISC exams

Anannya scored 86% in her exams despite being bedridden for half of the academic year.

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The tumor in her brain did not stop 18-year-old Anannya Sengupta from passing her ISC examinations with flying colours. A student of Pune’s Saint Mary’s School, Anannya scored 86% in her exams despite being bedridden for half of the academic year.

It was in 2011 when Anannya was detected with an epidermoid cyst located in the pineal region. She had to go through three consecutive brain surgeries to remove the tumor found in her brain.

Speaking with iamin, Kaushik Sengupta,  Anannya’s father said, “She started having headaches, so after consulting a doctor we had to operate immediately. During her 10th boards in 2013 when she studied in DPS International she started experiencing severe headaches again, yet scored 94%. After her 10th we moved to Pune for her further education.”

However, Anannya was detected with another tumor in November 2013. The family travelled to Mumbai for an expert consultation. “This time, the tumor was larger in size and was located at the pineal region, behind the optic chiasma pressing on the cerebellum," Kaushik recalled.

At this time when the doctors punctured the tumor to squeeze it out, it caused a brain hemorrhage which had severe implications to Anannya.

After the emergency operation in 2013 December, Anannya had to struggle with head pain, paralytic conditions to her left hand side, double vision and memory loss which continues even today.  “She has recovered up to 60 percent after two years of the operation. She still has severe head pains, loss in memory and cannot lift anything with her left hand. We might have to take her to the hospital in a few weeks time as she is complaining of headaches again. At one instance when she returned home after her physics exams, she asked us in a few hours if she had given her exams or not, she forgot about it,” said Rita Sengupta, Anannya's mother.

Through all this struggle, Anannya managed to secure a distinction in her examinations. “I did not want a year to go waste. It was difficult for me to study as it would hurt my head or eyes, my mother used to read out notes to me and I memorised the theory part listening to her. For the calculations part, I was good at mathematics so I did not have to put in efforts,” said a proud teenager.

Anannya is now opting for an engineering course at Manipal University.

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