By Dan Satherley
Christiaan van Vuuren, aka the 'Fully Sick Rapper', has been given the all-clear to leave hospital.
Diagnosed with tuberculosis, the Australian 27-year-old has been in isolation for six months, his only contact with the outside world being through social media such as Facebook and YouTube.
"The only things I could really do was exercise, go online or watch or read something," he told the Sydney Morning Herald today.
His eccentric rap videos posted to YouTube under the 'Fully Sick Rapper' moniker earned him an online following. For the last few months, van Vuuren has provided Campbell Live viewers with a weekly wrap of the news, done in his inimitable hip-hop style.
He says he's looking forward to the "blue sky and the sun", and doesn't mind that his ongoing medication will prevent him drinking alcohol for the next year.
"Just being around people will get me so pumped up I won't need to drink to have a good time," says van Vuuren.
He has to spend the first couple of weeks out of quarantine laying low, to see how his body copes without one particular medicine that was causing adverse side effects. Once that's over though, van Vuuren says he's going to "run amok", and hopes to meet some of the ladies he's chatted with online in person.
"I've probably been contacted by more girls than would contact me in real life,but I think that's just because there's nothing threatening about a guy that's sitting in a quarantine room behind a computer, dancing around in his underwear."
On Facebook, van Vuuren made a list of items he's had in his room to keep himself entertained, including swords, "ninja attire", an Optimus Prime helmet, Star Wars costumes, a cow suit, body armour, wigs, a guitar, a ukulele, a keyboard and floodlights, among other things.
He plans to keep making videos for his YouTube audience and raising money for tuberculosis awareness and Medicins Sans Frontieres.
"Being out of hospital will free me up to meet face-to-face with these groups and work out what kind of difference can be made and what it's going to take to effectively raise awareness."
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Check out some of the Fully Sick Rapper's fully sick rap wraps here, here and here.
source: newshub archive
