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
I started my consultation with my 3rd physician on May 2004. She was already 70 years old and was the older cousin of my second physician. Just like her cousin, she also told me that I needed to submit sputum specimen for culture (TBC) and drug susceptibility test (DST). During those times, though I was [...]
After spending a great amount of money to complete three cycles of treatment with my first private doctor for 18 long months, my auntie referred me to another doctor in hope that this new doctor could cure me from the disease. The doctor she referred to me was the same doctor that managed the TB [...]
One of the dangers that I faced even before I was “officially” diagnosed as DR-TB patient was the regular incidents of hemoptysis. It could lead to death especially when you choked during your episode of hemoptysis. My father’s last episode of hemoptysis happened right before my eyes while we were traveling in a distant place [...]
My first 5 years of treatment were under the management of private doctors. I used to believe that a high quality of treatment requires a good sum of money that was why I preferred to get what I thought of “quality treatment” from these private doctors instead of consulting our doctor at our community health [...]
Drugs, incompetence, private treatment, resistance, Side effects
