. >> reporter: it was the fall of 2013 and chaka brown says add little cough. there was a built of a cold and fever. sounds like symptoms of the flu maybe, not so much to worry about, but when weeks went by and things had gotten even worse, his doctors sent him to the emergency room. >> my eyes, i was seeing weird i was walking weird. my ears i was, like, going deaf in one ear. >> reporter: doctors diagnosed brown with disseminated to you tuberculosis tuberculosis. the bacteria was not just in his lungs but all over his body including his liver his brain and his prostate. he spent four moments in the hospital where doctors gave him massive doses of antibiotics. >> i remember sitting there and looking and i had a table and it was 27 pills in front of me and wasn't like 27 pills that day it was 27 pills at that time. >> reporter: weeks after he was released from the hospital doctors found lesions in his brain that were getting bigger, meaning the tb bacteria was still wreaking havoc in his body. chaka underwent brain surgery to remove the growth. . we say tb any