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
I was at the most vulnerable and yet the safest stage of my life. Never thought of being so helpless. The time dragged, days felt even longer, the sun shined bright but I felt I stood in total darkness.The feeling of being cured was all that helped me to hang on. When I overheard the nurse talking, it was [...]
Family, food, hope, indentity, induced sputum, isolation, Motivation, sputum, testing
I went for the CT SCAN and to my surprise it is not what I had in mind, both lungs are actually infected. They found two glands in my left lung and one gland in my right lung, which means the surgery will be very very difficult. So now I am starting to be kinda [...]
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow” , Indeed a strong quote from Orison Swett Marden (American writer) on which I lived. I was on the second line of treatment which had a massive regime. The drugs were; oral tablets; pyrazinamide, cyloserine, ciprofloxacin, prothionamide, and intravenous [...]
hickman line, hope, resistance, Side effects, steroids, treatment
