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T his post is on @doctorswithoutborders MSF website and also there are other blogs and TB stories that you can go through. Hope TB talks keep happening and we end the stigma. Sending solidarity and love to people living in pain. Hope we share our stories, overwhelm the system to listen to us. Tuberculosis and drug resistant tuberculosis is not something that you should post about only on World TB day, coz its just not on TB day alone we are associated with tuberculosis. Link to the blog : https://blogs.msf.org/bloggers/athira-elssa-johnson/tb-me-surviving-tb-mdr-tb-and-negligent-system
Drug- resistant Tuberculosis opens doors to issues like poverty, homlessness, caste class divisions, unemployment, education, stigma, discrimination and a lot more, recent reports show covid19 is all of this too, a lockdown like this is unaffordable and dangerous for the already struggling. Hope this gets over real soon. Thankyou Ramavarman T, TNN, to note about how TB patients strive the traumitising medication and isolation amidst all this.
Azhimukham report
https://www.azhimukham.com/positivestories/hear-the-words-of-athira-elsa-john-who-lives-in-isolation-for-around-2-years-70522
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1568927623265557&id=100004450035233 Rishma Mariya Johnson ; Ichu, My sister, had been stuck with me since my diagnosis which means she couldn't do things she love from 2018 especially, she wanted to do her masters degree, work with artists, do art, earn things, love, live and everything. My illness came with a lot of medicine sideffects, the slight one being tingling sensation under the feet, she would sit hours to put me into sleep by massaging my feet, would find new recipes and cook as she thought maybe new food will stop my projectile vomiting, many other instances and stories thats unexplainable in words! In 2016 when we were doing our degree we had discussed about doing something together like an independent store or something anywhere possible, with books, plants, handmade art and everything, out of her excitement to see it happening she started a handmade crafts home store that time (which is nothing but turning our roo...
AN MDR- TB BATTLEGROUND
In the wake of popping news reports on government’s negligence in recording health hazard victims, this is my account on my ongoing struggle with TB, being a onetime Intestinal TB survivor and a Multi drug resistant TB patient now (drug resistant is when your body is resistant to potent TB drugs ). This write up comes from someone who has already disappeared. Who has vanished from short family gatherings, college, workplace, cafe, crowd and anywhere there are people. But she has only taken a break, a break that she doesn’t want to get extended anymore. Because today she can’t take a gratifying arm stretch every morning, she throws up at the very sight of breakfast; she is rushed to the hospital every afternoon for painful injections that she can’t bear. Evenings are nightmares to her, pills are harder to take, she is acrophobic and germaphobic, there is tingling under her feet, crushing pain in the bones, unstoppable coughing ,rashes all over her body, buzzing in the ears, blurred v...