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Life in Quarantine, by The Fully Sick Rapper

Created by GypsyDrifter GypsyDrifter  > 9 months ago, 1 Sep 2014
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GypsyDrifter
GypsyDrifter

WA

2371 posts

1 Sep 2014 9:11am
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It put a smile on my monday sad face
Am I the only one that has not seen this sheeeeeeessssss




LINK:-
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-01/bondi-hipsters-fully-sick-rapper-christiaan-van-vuuren/5707750

When Sydney man Christiaan Van Vuuren was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis, he had no idea his experience would lead to a career in comedy.For six months he was quarantined in a 4x3-metre hospital room, not knowing how long it would take for a daily cocktail of drugs to start killing the infection in his lungs."For someone who was constantly moving, it forced him to slow down his lifestyle," his brother Connor Van Vuuren said."He was a social butterfly, suddenly stuck in this shoebox."Christiaan Van Vuuren first began to feel sick on a backpacking holiday in South America in late 2009. A lingering cough and a fever followed him home to Sydney, but assuming it was just a bad cold, he returned to his job at an advertising agency.
Photo: Christian Van Vuuren (second from left) on holiday with friends before he got sick. (ABC: Supplied)

Two weeks later during a lunch with clients, he took a dramatic turn for the worse."I started coughing, and it was just not stopping," he said."I felt that my hand was getting a little bit wet and I pulled my hand away from my face and looked down at it. It was covered in blood, and immediately I was like, 'OK, this is not good'."I had this flash of the three times that I can think of when somebody is coughing blood: 19th-century prostitute in Moulin Rouge; about to turn into a vampire or a zombie in any number of horror films; or that dude who got shot in the chest by a crossbow in Braveheart."
Photo: Christiaan Van Vuuren's lung X-ray showing signs of tuberculosis. (ABC: Supplied)

He was rushed to hospital and an X-ray revealed a hole the size of a 50-cent piece in his lung. When the doctor mentioned tuberculosis, Mr Van Vuuren had no idea what it was."I thought of a Tyrannosaurus rex. It sounds bad, but it seemed like some kind of ancient disease that I'd never heard of," he said.Globally, tuberculosis kills more than 1 million people each year. In Australia, few people die of TB however the drug-resistant strains are more difficult to treat.
ThinkaBowtit
ThinkaBowtit

WA

1134 posts

1 Sep 2014 10:34am
Classic.

This is me with a bin for an arm, this is me with a bin for a leg, this is me with a bin for a body, this is me with a transformer head, insert mad guitar lick... Garbledegarbledegarblede....garble... Hahaha, thanks for sharing that one GD.
Chris_M
Chris_M

2132 posts

1 Sep 2014 3:48pm
Having spent a decent stint in hospital I can see where this dude is coming from, but he is next level, no doubt about that!
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