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My father celebrated his 51st birthday on March 11, 2003. Three days after his birthday, he lost his battle against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
I got my first Drug Sensitivity Test (DST) result in Nov 11, 2004, that was 3 years after I started receiving TB treatment under the management of different private physicians.
The jeepney sets out at about 8:15am. It looks like a battered old short-bus, but instead of back seats, it has two long bench seats along the sides, and an open back and sides.
This blog is mainly to get word out to friends and family regarding this mission. There are a lot of questions coming my way, the answers to which may be of interest to some and not others.
When I first got pulmonary TB at the age of 19 in year 2001, my only wish was not to be prevented by this disease to go on and finish my studies, pass the CPA board exam and then work for a big a
