by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
I had sinus problems in 2006 and it wasn’t until I started losing the sight in my right eye that a very wonderful doctor got VERY concerned about me and made it his personal goal to solve what was happening to me. MRI showed I had mysterious fluid around my...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | General interest, Patient stories
Think twice before breathing off a bag Appeared in DIVER November 2010 It was a cruel stroke of fate that abruptly ended Mike Firth’s underwater adventures, but this UK diver is keen that his misfortune should serve as a warning to anyone tempted to skimp on kit...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
Hello Here is my Aspergillosis story… I started having problems with my health around the end of 2006. It began with problems eating then succumbing to emphysema due to smoking. I was diagnosed as having Dysphagia and I was loosing weight all the time. My family...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
This story was sent in to the Aspergillosis Patients support group in 2001. Mary Jo was an active member of the Aspergillus Support Group and she has suffered from Allergic BronchoPulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA) for most of her life. This disease is caused by a...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories
My story – medical I am 75 and I am writing this in the hope of encouraging new patients to believe that diagnoses which sound awful might not be as bad as they sound. So keep reading past the beginning. Current diagnosesABPA and asthma (formerly included...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | General interest, Patient stories
This man, who is not named, is believed to have had a fully active immune system and yet when he accidentally inhaled large numbers of spores when opening bags of garden compost his immune system was rapidly overwhelmed. This news article was originally written in The...