Imagine this.......

Imagine the worst cold you have ever had, you know the ones where your nose is so bunged up you constantly feel the need to blow it, the difficulty you have trying to get it out, real sticky snotty mess!!....well imagine that never ever goes, everyday walking around with tissues in your handbag hoping that one day you can just blow your nose and 'breathe deep' through them nostrils, its what there there for after all. But instead of it getting better it gets worse, it would be pretty awful really..wouldn't it??.....

Imagine running the fastest you could possibly run, heart racing adrenaline pumping and making you push push push yourself to the finish line, once you get there what do you do, you relax and take huge breathes through your mouth and feel the heart rate coming down, the endorphins giving you that happy buzz from just achieving your run, your heart rate is back to normal now, you feel better, you smile...Now try this run again only clamp off your nose and breath through a McDonalds straw only, when you get to the finish line keep the straw in your mouth and try as hard as you can to get air through the straw, you wont feel happy, you may feel panic, maybe even fear that you cant breath like your lungs are failing and your heart is going to explode, record the difference in time it takes you to recover...this is my life!! only im not running i just walked 10 yards to the car, im now sitting in the drivers seat gasping, coughing,sweating, panicking.
So if you see me pull up in a disabled drivers space and get out, take a minute before you judge me thinking silly young girl is not entitled to park there lets go and tell her so....

YOU DON'T LOOK SICK!!!! No I don't. It's hard to explain to someone when they have no clue. It's a daily struggle feeling sick on the inside while you look fine on the outside. i have an invisible illness ...Cystic Fibrosis. Don't Judge.