Four months of long darkness seemed endless. It was the Tuesday of the week I was desperately waiting for the doctors to come and give me some good news about the sputum test. The doctors came and told me that if the culture is negative it means nothing is growing. I was standing just 15 [...]
Family, hope, Hospital, postitive, recovery, results, stress, TB, waiting, work
Since I have had so many side effects, I have been mentally blank, and I am not sure what to say. But one thing – I have had a lot of pains one way or another. Lots of physical problems, and I was hospitalized also. Although I’ve had these physical pains, I hope it is [...]
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 [...]
