Most Of Those Who Know Me Well, Know I Once Had Tuberculosis. When I First Contracted It I Had No Idea I Even Had It. I Had No Symptoms What So Ever. This Was In 1984.
I Suffered My First Seizure And It Was A Very Frightful Expierence In My Life.
My Doctor Ordered A Battery Of Test To Be Performed To Find Out What May Have Caused This To Occur. After All The Blood Work Was Completed I Was To Take A TB Test. I Was Asked To Return In A Week So They Could See My Arm Where The Test Was Given. This Test Was Performed On A Friday. On Sunday Afternoon My Arm Began To Swell And Double In Size. I Immediatly Called My Doctor To Inform Him What Was Going On. He Wanted To See Me First Thing The Next Morning. After I Arrived And Showed Him My Arm He Told Me He Had To Inform The Health Department Of These Results. Ofcourse This All Scared The Daylights Out Of Me. At That Time I Had No Idea What Tuberculosis Even Was.
When I Reported To The TB Center There Was A Chart Hanging On The Wall That Showed Your Lungs. Beside That Illistration Was another Photo Of A Tomato. Showing The Concept Of What Rot Does To A Tomato Is The Very Same As What TB Does To Your Lungs.
They Asked Me If I Had Been Around Anyone Who Has Been Sneezing,Weezing or Couching. It Was In The Middle Of Winter And Alot Of People Had Colds. How Was I Suppose To Know Whether They Had A Cold Or TB?
I Was Told I Had To Take 1 Pill A Day Called INH. I Had To Take A Chest XRay Every 3 Months So They Could Monitor The Damage To My Lung. Fortunatly For Me It Damaged Just A Small Area About The Size Of A Dime. After A Year I Was Given A Clean Bill Of Health. The People At The TB Center Told Me What I Had Was Actually A Good Thing. I Had What They Referred To As Inactive TB. Meaning Someone Had Given It To Me But I Could Not Pass It On To Anyone Else. Furthermore They Told Me I Was Totally Immune To TB. I Would Never Get It Again. However They Made It Clear That I Would Always Test Positive In A TB Test. They Said If This Were To Happen To Everybody Tuberculosis Would Be No Longer.
My Reason For Writing This Today Is Because As I Write This There Is A Man In Champaign Who Has Been Quarentined In A Hotel For 30 Days Due To Having Tuberculosis. I Am assuming His Type Is What Gives Others This Dreadful Disease.
Now If This Is Correct Then Why Quarentine Him If What They Told Me Was Truth? They Told Me I Could Work In Any TB Sanitarium And Never Get TB. Now To Me That Is A Good Thing. I'm Sure Officials Know Exactly Why They Are Doing What They Are Doing By Preventing others From Getting TB. So Which Is It?
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