6/14/2023 0 Comments Yasmin swift note"One woman who was ill and didn't want to do anything told me she'd been inspired to get up and go for a walk to breathe in some fresh air after reading my post and I felt really good about that," she recalls. "I wanted to travel the world and at my age I should be in the prime of my life."īut Yasmin - who reveals on her Instagram account that every 48 hours she spends 45 minutes preparing the drugs she needs to stay alive - never dwells on the negative and quickly returns her focus to helping others. "Sometimes I feel angry and upset and what I'm going through does feel unfair. I loved working at the hair academy, learning a skill, listening to people's chat and having a giggle. "I've lost my independence massively and I can't work at the moment. Just making my bed and washing up leaves me feeling so tired - and I'm breathless walking upstairs. She said: "I'm not coping well at the moment. Yasmin in London's Royal Free Hospital when she decided to share her experience of illness Yasmin is open about the effects of her illness. "You don't feel so alone and people help each other even if they have different conditions." She said: "I'd been thinking about setting up an account for a while as I'd followed other people with illnesses and it makes you think your life isn't so bad. The student of The Hair Academy in Ashford had been plagued by headaches and sickness, side effects of medication that is continuously pumped into her body through an intravenous drip to prevent clots and widen her blood vessels. Yasmin will also need a lung transplant in the future. Left untreated it can damage the right side of the heart and cause it to fail. Yasmin pictured at a barbecue in Biddenden raising money for the IPAH charity Yasmin swimming with dolphins in Portugal The note left on her car in the summer The upsetting incident led her to think about how people with invisible illnesses were treated and it was during a recent two-week spell in London's Royal Free hospital that she decided to share her experiences.ĭoctors at the Royal Free were trying to stabilise her rare condition, which leads to high blood pressure in the blood vessels that supply the lungs. When a stranger slapped the note on her car in July, threatening to report her to the authorities for misuse of the space, Yasmin was on a rare evening out visiting friends in her former home town of Tenterden. The teenager has a rare condition, idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), which leaves her struggling for breath doing the simplest of tasks like making her own bed or washing the dishes.
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