by GAtherton | Jan 30, 2019 | Patient stories, Video
Parisa Thepmankorn from Rockaway, New Jersey received the £500 2015 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for ‘Intraocular Pressure’. The other shortlisted poets were Daniella Cugini from Warwick in England for ‘the surgeon dissects his lover’ and US...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories, Video
The Hippocrates £5000 NHS first prize (hippocrates-poetry.org) went to former counsellor Kate Compston from Cornwall for a poem about revealing the diagnosis of dementia. The Hippocrates Prize is an annual award for poetry and medicine with a closing date of 31st...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories, Video
Friday 13th March 2015 was the day I got told I was going to die. Today makes 2 years since that day. If you are new to my channel a bit about me. My name is Stewart Armstrong I have Sarcoidosis, Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) and a very low CD4 count. I...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories, Video
Nasilele describes her experience of living with CPA after a prior diagnosis of Tuberculosis and then having a severe cough that did not respond to antibiotics. A CT scan identified a fungal ball and she was treated with antifungal medication for 18 months. Nasilele...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories, Video
Stephen describes the difficulties living with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis. He was initially suspected to have Tuberculosis but a year later he was finally referred to the National Aspergillosis Centre, UK. Stephen decribes a strong improvement when on antifungal...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Living with Aspergillosis, Patient stories, Video
Jacqueline lives with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis and this is her story, how she was diagnosed, how she was treated and her experiences while on several different antifungal drugs. Short history: A series of chest infections that stubbornly refused to clear up led...