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
In December 2009 I was diagnosed with TB. The Doctors suggested that it was likely that I picked it up when I was travelling in South Africa, or perhaps South America. After spending six weeks being treated on the standard drugs, I was released to go home again, but two weeks later some Sensitivity test [...]
christiaan van vuuren, fully sick rapper, Hospital, isolation, MDR-TB, MSF, quarantine, superbugs
