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STORIES OF LOSS
“
I would like to share my experience on the TB disease. My mother suffered
with the very same disease i.e. TB in the brain, which had travelled through her spine
due to which she was bed-ridden.
My mom was not responsive to the first level of basic drugs that is AKT-4 and
Rifampicin actually had a negative effect on her due to which she faced a Kidney
Failure and the medicines didn’t have the needed effect on her. But I was never
educated on the Second Line of Drugs and in fact, the doctors were never ready to
support properly.
She was not even treated properly in the hospital and was sent home saying that she
was indeed improving. But in two days she had water logging in her body and was
admitted to the hospital after which she never came home. She was put on Ventilator
and finally gave in in less than 18 hours.
” - Rajni
“ I have experienced one real life struggle by a husband (a good friend of mine)
whose wife was suffering from this disease before his marriage but his in-laws did
not admit this thing at the time of marriage which led to the third stage of TB and he
could not save his wife despite several diligent efforts and even his child could not
survive before birth.
” - Namit
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“
I would like to share my experience on the TB disease. My mother suffered
with the very same disease i.e. TB in the brain, which had travelled through her spine
due to which she was bed-ridden.
My mom was not responsive to the first level of basic drugs that is AKT-4 and
Rifampicin actually had a negative effect on her due to which she faced a Kidney
Failure and the medicines didn’t have the needed effect on her. But I was never
educated on the Second Line of Drugs and in fact, the doctors were never ready to
support properly.
She was not even treated properly in the hospital and was sent home saying that she
was indeed improving. But in two days she had water logging in her body and was
admitted to the hospital after which she never came home. She was put on Ventilator
and finally gave in in less than 18 hours.
” - Rajni
“ I have experienced one real life struggle by a husband (a good friend of mine)
whose wife was suffering from this disease before his marriage but his in-laws did
not admit this thing at the time of marriage which led to the third stage of TB and he
could not save his wife despite several diligent efforts and even his child could not
survive before birth.
” - Namit
5
