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 [...]
Lizo Nobanda is one of the TB centers here around Khayelitsha – not that I know of many others. Well I belong here. I am proud to say that, because all of us have the same disease and there is no discrimination amongst us. And merely just that is why I say I belong. I [...]
People don’t want to come near you or even chat to you when you are wearing that respirator mask. Well from my point of view I guess it’s the little information they get about TB in general and specifically where and when it is safe or not to come near a person who has TB…>I’m [...]
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
