{"id":109,"date":"2006-09-07T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/my-little-damini\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:31:30","slug":"my-little-damini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/my-little-damini\/","title":{"rendered":"My Little Damini"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare exception, a personal post on an otherwise non-personal blog.<\/p>\n

This is our beautiful daughter Damini…..<\/p>\n

\"Damini\"<\/p>\n

Damini turned five recently. Tomorrow she goes for the third major surgery of her young life. She was born with a congenital nevi (nevus)<\/a><\/em> that covered most of her right forehead area through to her eye lid. She has had two surgeries and a skin graft to remove the nevi over the course of the last 18 months. Thanks to those we don’t have to worry about any life threatening impacts from the nevi.<\/p>\n

My little Damini is the bravest person I know. Amazingly she never complains about pain after her surgeries and never cries, even though stitches cover most of her forehead area and recovery is tough. Her strength and resilience is a source of deep inspiration for me. She is also the source of the passion I have for work, life, and beyond.<\/p>\n

As a human, and a father, dealing with this on behalf of my daughter is the hardest thing I have done in my life. I only wish that I could be as resilient as she is in dealing with all this.<\/p>\n

I’ll be off the blog for the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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