by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories
BY DANIELLE OFRI Toxic sock syndrome. That’s the first thing we noticed when we entered the hospital room. For those gentle readers who are not familiar with such sensory assault, toxic sock syndrome is the clinical term for the rank odor that accompanies damp, fetid...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
I have been suffering from ABPA for almost 4 years now. My first experience with ABPA led me to the hospital with pleurecy, sepsis & pneumonia. They did not know at that time that I had ABPA, and thought instead that I had Microbacterium Avium Complex. For another...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
A couple of days after the emergency surgery on 1/30/2010 to literally save my life, one of my infectious disease doctors (I had 5) asked me what I thought happened. I told her that I thought it was a “Perfect Storm” of sorts and she agreed. You may ask,...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
This portrait of Steph by her mother Liz is reproduced here as one of only three recorded cases we currently know of where a healthy person has been struck down with invasive aspergillosis after an accidental exposure. We do not know if Steph accidentally inhaled a...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
I was diagnosed back in 2006 with Invasive Aspergillosis in both the upper lobes of my lungs. I have been on and off several different Anti-Fungal’s over the last 4 years. I am currently on Noxafil after my doctor’s consulted with Dr, Denning, after a very...