Sunday, April 23, 2006

Life and Dealth

Just receive some bad news from JB saying that this 2 days will be the crucial period for Ern Hao to either survive or ...leave all of us.

Cos she's unable to discharge her urine due to kidney failure(yea,the virus has spread to her kidney now causing it to be malfunctioned).But they said that further diagnosis need to be taken prior to this conclusion.OMG!

Basically the doctor said,this 2 days are exceptionally important to determine whether she can be able to continue ahead her still-long-and-sweet's journey of life.So,this 2 days is very dangerous for her.In a nutshell,she could have just leave us at every second from now on until the end of 2 days or well,it's hard to say too as this kinda thing is beyond any prediction and expectation...it's uncertainty.For us we can't do anything but pray for every single second that she may recover soon and have fun with us once again like before...really helpless and depressing.

Here's some details of TB found from Wikipedia :

~TB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus)

~Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system(this is why she failed to discharge her toxics through urinary system due to kidney's failure), bones and joints.

Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly and common major infectious diseases today, infecting two billion people, or approximately one-third ( WHO TB.) of the world's population. Nine million new cases of the disease, resulting in two million deaths, occur annually, mostly in developing countries. However, developed countries are not spared the burden of tuberculosis. There is a rising number of people in the developed world who contract tuberculosis because they have compromised immune systems, typically as a result of immunosupressive drugs or HIV/AIDS. These people are at particular risk of tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis disease.

Most of those infected (90%) have asymptomatic latent TB infection (LTBI). There is a 10% lifetime chance that LTBI will progress to TB disease which, if left untreated, will kill more than 50% of its victims. TB is one of the top four infectious killing diseases in the world: TB kills 2 million, and malaria kills 1 million.

The neglect of TB control programs, HIV/AIDS, and immigration has caused a resurgence of tuberculosis. Multiple drug resistant strains of TB (MDR-TB) and Extreme Drug-Resistance in Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are emerging. The World Health Organization declared TB a global health emergency in 1993, and the Stop TB Partnership proposed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis which aims to save an additional 14 million lives between 2006 and 2015.