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
“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
This post is also available in Russian After having received treatment for regular TB, I was to be discharged from the hospital and start the continuation phase of the treatment. And as soon as I began the next phase, I realized that things were not going to be as easy as I thought. Despite my [...]
Пройдя курс лечения от обычной формы туберкулеза в больнице, я должна была выписаться и перейти на следующую фазу лечения. Не успев перейти на эту новую фазу, я осознала, что все будет намного сложнее, чем я думала. Вопреки моему оптимизму, множество препятствий вставали на моем пути избавления от туберкулеза раз и навсегда. Неожиданно у меня начался [...]
I started my consultation with my 3rd physician on May 2004. She was already 70 years old and was the older cousin of my second physician. Just like her cousin, she also told me that I needed to submit sputum specimen for culture (TBC) and drug susceptibility test (DST). During those times, though I was [...]
