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If you have a cough for more than three weeks, go to a doctor. ( TB so isn't as wiped out as it has been described. )Congratulations on my pink and spongey lung tissue were slightly premature I'm afraid: I've got latent TB after all, and am waiting for the results of my liver function tests before I start on the drugs.
One thing I don't get is the attitude towards TB round here. It's like it's a moral failing to have caught it. Also, no one believes that I could be not contagious. They get that it's serious, but don't realise that it's so serious that if I was contagious, I'd be in isolation. I was amused that Spiddal, one of the towns near here, was so named because it was where you went to recuperate and Ospideal is the Irish for hospital.
One thing I don't get is the attitude towards TB round here. It's like it's a moral failing to have caught it. Also, no one believes that I could be not contagious. They get that it's serious, but don't realise that it's so serious that if I was contagious, I'd be in isolation. I was amused that Spiddal, one of the towns near here, was so named because it was where you went to recuperate and Ospideal is the Irish for hospital.
