For those of you who have been reading my blogs on TB&ME, but who haven’t seen the Youtube videos that I made about my experience with TB, I wanted to give you a bit of a chronological look at the time that I spent in Sydney Hospital between December 2009 and July 2010. I was [...]
coping, Diagnosis, entertainment, Family, isolation, Side effects, support, tests, treatment
It’s been a month after my medications have finished, and I feel pretty good to say that the mental side effects that came along with all of my medications seem to have disappeared now…. AT LEAST FOR NOW!!! *Insert evil laugh here. Nah, it’s honestly very good to have a clear head on my shoulders [...]
It’s been exactly two weeks since I finished my 18 months of MDR TB medications, and I have been feeling like a new man. It’s so great to have the cloud of doubt, anxiety and paranoia lifted off my shoulders. Feeling what it is like to think with a clear head again, has made me [...]
After 18 months of hard treatment for Multi Drug Resistant TB, I have finally come to a point where I feel like I can let my hair down a bit. Tomorrow, I am scheduled to have my last dose of TB medications. This is a great celebration for me, because I have been on a [...]
Drugs, Family, Hospital, injections, isolation, MDR-TB, quarantine, superbug, support
Hi all. When I was first diagnosed in hospital, I didn’t know a whole lot about TB. In Australia it’s very rare, and although I had seen people in movies with TB, or heard of people dying from it many years ago, I had no idea of what it would mean for me that I [...]
christiaan van vuuren, fully sick, fully sick rapper, Hospital, MDR-TB, medicins sans frontieres, MSF, patient, quarantine, superbugs, TB
