When life gives you lemons... An inspring blog post from Mariam full of hope and determination.
Mildred returns to her blog with a great interview she did with Global Post about her experience of going through treatment for extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) not once, but TWICE!
Here, I live with the family. I live very carefully. I don’t cough in front of people. If I have to, I do it in a different place. I don’t let children come near me. I am not very happy. I am afraid to go near people. It hurts me.
Phumeza (20) was diagnosed with XDR TB in June 2010. She had to suspend her studies at the Cape Town technical college to be admitted to hospital…
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Athong lives in Manipur, India. He was diagnosed with TB in 2005 and MDR TB in 2010. He is a driver but had to quit his job when his health deteriorated.
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Opera Churchill is a 34 year old and has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. He is currently being treated by MSF in Kitgum, Uganda.
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Grace Lamwaka has had to suspend her agriculture studies in Kitgum, Uganda because she is currently being treated…
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Lucky is 28 years old and was diagnosed with XDR TB in June 2011; she is HIV negative and never had TB before. She is an NHS patient in the United Kingdom.
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Mariam Davtyan (21) lives in Armenia was diagnosed with MDR TB in 2009. Her blog is also published in Russian here.
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Mother of five in the Shiselweni Region of Swaziland. She began MDR-TB treatment in February 2011. Her daughter, Colisile, is also blogging.
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In December 2009 I was diagnosed with TB. The Doctors suggested that it was likely that I picked it up when I was travelling in South Africa…
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Madan is 36 and from Mumbai, India. He has been on treatment for MDR-TB for 9 months and for HIV for 3 years and 4 months..
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38 year old woman in Emakhweleni, a small community in the Shiselweni Region of Swaziland. She began MDR-TB treatment in November 2010.
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Mildred is from the Philippines and has recently recovered from XDR TB. She tells her story here.
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Nodjindo is from Central African Republic and is blogging in French. She is waiting for drugs to arrive so she can start her treatment for MDR TB.
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A 25 year old from Swaziland, Colisile began her MDR-TB treatment In January 2011. Her mother, Zanele, is also blogging.
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2012, 10 мая Я уже писала в предыдущем посте, что мне пришлось снова начинать лечение. Мне было очень сложно, и я очень боялась, только на этот раз все было немножко по-другому – внутренний голос говорил мне, что у меня все получится. Итак, мне пришлось снова, как я уже пробовала однажды, принимать лекарства. Я настроила себя [...]
For whatever.. Gods maybe… guess what???? With all the world praying for me, with all the people taking their time to pray for me, things are finally going my way. My results came back negative, 2 cultures negative. The guys at Lizo Nobanda came up to me excited, soo excited that I cried. I thought [...]
deafness, depression, future, recovery, Side effects, support, XDR TB
As I mentioned in my last entry, I began my treatment again. It was very difficult as I had a big fear, but this time it was different – I had an inner belief that I could really do it. So I began taking my drugs like it was the first time. I had persuaded [...]
Hi to all!It’s been 8 months since I last wrote a blog for TB and ME. I became busy with my new work. I promise to continue narrating my experiences in TB but for now, let me share with you my story as written by John Donnelly of the Global Post. He interviewed me sometime [...]
Family, Featured, hope, isolation, resistance, Side effects, TB, tests, treatment, work, XDR TB
Lucky recorded this series of special video blog posts for World TB Day 2012. On how it all started Meet my medication On improvements needed A message for other TB sufferers Advice – the enemy within you On drugs and money
advice, coping, Diagnosis, improvements, medication, pills, support, treatment
