I'd like to thank Diana and the team for inviting me to be their Coordinator for Scotland, I take this as a great compliment. I've been looking for such a position for years to try and help with MCS but couldn't find anything. So thank you!

I found out about Allergy UK in England and became a member, but at that time six years ago or so, they didn't have MCS as an allergy so referred me to AAA. who were helpful. I sat and cried when I found out there were other people like me. I wasn't a freak anymore!

Since then I've written newspaper articles to help Allergy UK bring this condition out into the open, and then did a paid "Womans Own" interview, I wasn't paid much but didn't care, so I put it towards a computer with my son's help - best thing I ever did! Now I could contact the World and what a bloody mess I found the World was in.

I've since written numerous letters to the Prime Minister in London, who passed my letters on to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive, who admitted to me that they've known of this illness for many years, but have no plans at present or in the future to open new clinics for this and other respiratory conditions, nice of them eh? So I've soldiered on! I have a good MP from Glasgow on my side now, he's written to the Head of the National Health Service in Scotland for me; but this has gone on now for two years being passed from pillar to post from one doctor to another.

Read Donna's story here.