When a routine festive season turns into a battle for survival, Between Solitude and Scars unfolds the intimate journey of Muhamad Safwan Ishak, whose life is abruptly transformed by typhoid infection and catastrophic blood clots. Told through raw honesty and lyrical prose, this memoir chronicles his descent from ordinary days into weeks of uncertainty, hospital wards, and the slow rediscovery of meaning in pain. From the sterile corridors of Hospital Sultanah Aminah to the quiet nights of fear and faith, Safwan reflects on illness not as mere suffering, but as a profound awakening to human fragility, love, and endurance. Alongside medical interventions and near-death episodes lie tender portraits of family devotion, friendship, and the silent resilience that illness demands. At once heartbreaking and life-affirming, Between Solitude and Scars reminds readers that recovery is not simply returning to who we were, but learning to live again, with scars as proof of survival, and solitude as a space where strength is reborn.