We've had a mobile scanning unit at work today, the nurse said to me...
'Have you had TB ?
' ..as she looks at my xray?
'No, i had pneumonia and pleurisy last year, I have pleural thickening, I was fully tested for TB when I had pneumonia...negative result.'
Her reaction to the xray was quite instant as she looked at it.
We've had 2 cases of TB in two years at work and several more cases in other firms locally.
My Xray looks worse than when i actually had pneumonia (to the untrained eye of course)..some of that will be long term damage.
Im half expecting a call back to the docs in a couple weeks once they've analysed the Xray. The nurse scribbled quite a few lines on my notes.....and off i went for blood tests.