Chest x-ray for TB

[C_María 6]

When my husband was given his sealed black envelope containing the medical results for our K-1 visa in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico he was given a separate disk that had his chest x-ray showing his negative TB results. We had read on the forums over and over that it wouldn't be needed again and we could throw it away. We decided to go ahead and keep it anyways...

Some weeks later here in the U.S. we go to get his vaccines for A.O.S. and in that process they routinely do a skin test for TB that lo and behold comes out with a positive reaction (means he had been exposed to it sometime in his life). Normally at that point they would have had to do a chest x-ray to confirm that it was not active in his lungs and therefor contagious. Even if one could reasonably deduce that since he was permitted into the US just weeks before under the condition that he did not have active TB that he does not now have it. It would have cost us a couple hundred bucks.

But fortunately we were able to find a sympathetic radiologist to view the disk that we had miraculously kept and on his own time write up a report verifying the absence of TB in my husband's lungs and send it to the doctor who was then able to complete the vaccination report and pass along the sealed envelope to us to send in with the AOS.

I am not throwing one single scrap of anything away until this whole process is complete!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to add this experience to the archives...

[Sarah&Michael 2]

Thanks for the tip! And that pic of your baby is lovely!

[paojack 41]

wow! thanks for the tip, I am one of those persons that like to throw everything away. Now for sure I am keeping the freaking disc!!!! Thanks and good luck with everything!