Okay so first of all I have said I am praying for the health of the family. Secondly, I want to go back to school. There’s nothing I have to do immediately after this treatment except to go back to school and finish this diploma in agriculture. Thirdly – the thing which has worried me [...]
There’s a chicken in the room. I shout Go outside! and chase it out…. Last time she came in here to roost. As an agriculture student you need to know the number of birds you are keeping. They might ask you in the interview. Now, if you don’t know how many you are keeping at [...]
The only thing delaying me going back to school is the treatment. And then, what in fact I’m praying God to give me after this treatment, going back to school will give me an idea of what to do. I’m willing to do anything. Working is difficult now because I see that it can interrupt [...]
My name is Phumeza , I am 20 years old from Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, South Africa. I was diagnosed with TB in 2010 sometime in May. The ordinary TB drugs did not work so then I had to start with the multi-drug resistant [MDR] TB drugs at MSF’s Lizo Nobanda clinic in June/July 2010 [...]
deafness, Drugs, education, Pneomothorax, school, Side effects, XDR
Suffering from MDR-TB made me fearful and withdrawn and as a result I stopped interacting with people, because I thought everyone around me knew I had a dreadful disease. The education I receive from attending the support group makes me realise that I had a wrong perception and I give credit to the formation of [...]
