![]() ![]() Just because I'm not in a wheelchair or have a visible ailment, it doesn't mean I'm not entitled to use a disabled space. If I could speak to you, the person that left the note, I would say, just please don’t judge. Now I'm on medication its more manageable, I’ve actually had a pump fitted now which I have to take my medication through, it's permanently attached to me. The diagnosis was a relief at first but now its just difficult to live with. At one point it got really bad, I was constantly in and out of A&E. I had so many tests it's difficult to count. In all, it took me a good year to get a diagnosis. My mum said she was scared she would lose me. My symptoms developed gradually, but in the last few months leading up to my diagnosis it was just getting worse and worse. Where I used to go to the gym five times a week, my health was just getting worse and worse. My exercise routine went from healthy to non-existent. I was literally walking the distance of a room before I had to stop walking. When I first started getting symptoms, the main thing that I noticed was my legs swelling up, My stomach, my back, and my eyes also became really puffy and sore. It gives me shortness of breath, tiredness, some people even black out and faint. ![]() I’ve only recently been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, in December or November last year. But I shouldn’t have to feel like that, because there is an illness there but it just doesn’t show. When I put my badge up I feel like I have to walk out of the car limping. You can tell people are staring when you get of the car and stuff like that but nobody had actually said anything before, let alone left a note Where I'm young and I look well people are just so quick to judge. To be honest it does make me laugh because I just think people are so arrogant to people with invisible illnesses. On our way home, we crossed the road and I didn't actually notice your letter until this morning as it was dark when I left and it was low down on the windscreen Last night I went to the White Lion in Tenterden with my friend and parked my car outside Prezzo in the disabled space and, honestly, I didn't think anything of it. I saw the note you left on my car and this is what I want to say back. So although Yasmin couldn't confront the person who left her the note, we have published what she told us following the incident in full below. But the Ashford girls' gleaming smile and cheery demeanour masks a serious lung disorder which severely limits the quality of her life
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