{"id":42,"date":"2018-05-06T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgard.uwasa.fi\/fi\/midcom-permalink-1e84280df7d7f1c428011e8ad7b99f84a82eb05eb05"},"modified":"2020-10-08T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:40:14","slug":"my-own-battle-phd-vs-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwasa.fi\/thesis\/my-own-battle-phd-vs-health\/","title":{"rendered":"My own battle: PhD. vs Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"abstract\">When we think of a person who wants to fulfill a scientific research career, this vocation causes us a certain admiration. Socially they are valued in a very positive way, and of course, we think about the difficulties that this career must entail and we attribute them a high capacity to make efforts and to sacrifice do sacrifices.<\/div>\n<p>But, when WE are the doctoral student, we live the reality of facing a world of hard work, of reading without rest, of putting friends and family away because we lack of time and what is worse to face a number of diseases that can arise during the study period.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2017, I started my journey in the path of being a scientific researcher, it has only been 8 months and I already feel like an eternity, because it has not been easy to think about subjects, it has not been easy to decide the line of research, when I have been in 3 different projects, and the latest one has nothing to research about. \u00a0It is even more difficult when we are away from our family, when we live in a country that is not ours, with different culture and languages and when we are literally ALONE.<\/p>\n<p>The agony is just starting, I was last December at home, in Colombia, finally enjoying Christmas with my family, after 5 long Decembers in the cold Finland, and for reasons of living,\u00a0 I had a hunch doing some medical checkups, obtaining not very convincing results.<\/p>\n<p>I returned to Finland with the conviction to continue with my doctoral studies, to achieve one more goal in my life but with the anguish of reviewing those medical results.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to go to the doctor in Finland, once again to make the same exams and exclude any doubts, but unfortunately the results were not positive, I have been struggling for almost two months with this anxiety, because even if I was expecting bad news and I have seen it in my family, it doesn\u2019t mean that I shouldn\u2019t be worried.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman, I accept this battle with all my strength, because I am neither the first nor the last one, and because I know that it is not a death sentence and probabilities of being victorious are many;<\/p>\n<p>I am infinitely grateful to life for discovering on time this disease that affects thousands of women in the world, and I am grateful for being in a country that offers advanced treatments.<\/p>\n<p>You might be asking yourselves \u2026 Does she plan to stop studying? Well the answer is \u201cDefinitely NOT\u201d; \u00a0some studies reveal that doing a Ph.D. causes stresses and mental illnesses, but at this point, I consider it my weapon to fight my sickness, a way to have my mind occupied, to see life in another way and why not, to be able to make a small contribution to the scientific community. I will continue studying, I will continue reading, I will continue writing, I will continue working at the University of Vaasa as far as my energies allow it and like\u00a0 this\u00a0 proverb says &#8221;God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers&#8221;, so I consider myself\u00a0 a VERY STRONG SOLDIER!,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lina Maria Fern\u00e1ndez Gualdron<\/strong><br \/>Doctoral Student<br \/>Telecommunication Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of a person who wants to fulfill a scientific research career, this vocation causes us a certain admiration. 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