John Guto lives with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis which followed on from Tuberculosis and this is his story.
John describes his symptoms - frequent chest infections that didn't respond to antibiotics and then coughing up blood. His doctors had initially considered the possibility that he had cancer but found nothing. When he coughed up a large amount of blood he was send for assessment to the National Aspergillosis Centre, UK where his CPA was diagnosed.
John opted to have a lobectomy to remove the part of his lung that was infected and is now free of aspergillosis.
The Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections (GAFFI) held a meeting in Liverpool in late 2016 and invited several people living with aspergillosis to tell their stories.
