Here are excerpts from our conversation with Kate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought [TB] was \u2026 an old school disease that people got a long time ago. I thought that it was like smallpox or something; like they had cured it and it had largely gone away, because it had gone away in my world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was hard to get a sense of urgency from my doctors. I was pregnant so there\u2019s just this expectation of misery and complaining because of it. It was hard to get definitive answers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNobody thought of TB despite the fact that I was saying \u2018I\u2019m coughing up blood, I have night sweats, I have no appetite, I just kinda want to lay down all day\u2019; nobody thought tuberculosis, not a single person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really trusted my doctors to tell me what was going on but they didn\u2019t seem to have a sense of urgency, and I knew that something was very wrong. It was very hard for me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI remember when they told me I had tuberculosis in the ICU and just being so happy and so relieved because I was like \u2018That\u2019s curable! That is something they can treat and cure!\u2019 Emotionally I was in a great place \u2026 because I finally had a diagnosis. I was finally going to be on a road to feeling better, and they might save my baby.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo act like diseases care about borders is really, really dumb. It\u2019s shortsighted. It\u2019s weird that we act isolationist about tuberculosis in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople need to know how many people die from tuberculosis even though we have a cure for it. When you think about what an injustice that is - that this is a curable disease - that keeps me up at night. It just makes me crazy when I think that 1.6 million people die of a disease that we have a cure for. It should make you nuts. It\u2019s a huge injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
janvier 2020 - \u201cLes gens ont besoin de savoir combien de personnes meurent \u00e0 cause de la tuberculose, malgr\u00e9 le fait qu\u2019on ait un traitement pour \u00e7a. Quand on y pense, quelle injustice \u2013 il s\u2019agit d\u2019une maladie gu\u00e9rissable \u2013 cela me garde \u00e9veill\u00e9e la nuit. Cela me rend folle lorsque je pense que 1,6 million de personnes meurent \u00e0 la suite d\u2019une maladie pour laquelle nous avons un rem\u00e8de. Cela devrait vous rendre fou. C\u2019est une \u00e9norme injustice.\u201c<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Kate O\u2019Brien, TB Survivor - Results Canada","_seopress_titles_desc":"\u201cPeople need to know how many people die from tuberculosis even though we have a cure for it. When you think about what an injustice that is - that this is a curable disease - that keeps me up at night. It just makes me crazy when I think that 1.6 million people die of a disease that we have a cure for. It should make you nuts. It\u2019s a huge injustice.\u201d","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champion-stories","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}