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, 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
My parents called me lucky and I guess it’s absolutely true to me – “I am lucky”. You may be wondering what makes me feel lucky? It’s the feeling that I am alive and going to be with my family, my loved ones. That makes me feel lucky and very happy. If I flashback the [...]
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 [...]
For those of you who have been reading my blogs on TB&ME, but who haven’t seen the Youtube videos that I made about my experience with TB, I wanted to give you a bit of a chronological look at the time that I spent in Sydney Hospital between December 2009 and July 2010. I was [...]
coping, Diagnosis, entertainment, Family, isolation, Side effects, support, tests, treatment
