In the headquarters of the Located in via Cairoli in Livorno there are long queues these Christmas days. And on Friday around 5 pm the tickets sold off by customers were already hundreds. Anna Mannucci, 25 years old, he waited half an hour. Then, despite mask and distance, he was afraid to wait any longer. Not a fearful girl Anna. She suffers from cystic fibrosis, a very serious degenerative disease diagnosed when she was two months old, who fights like a warrior, and has been recognized as a 100% civil invalid. Anna, recently discharged from a 15-day hospitalization at the Careggi hospital in Florence, had to send an urgent registered letter on Friday.
The doctors had told her to be very careful about Covid, do not queue, not to expose themselves and in this case to show their invalidity documents to pass on to everyone. But Anna, despite her very serious illness, doesn’t seem like a disabled person and doesn’t want to feel privileged. So the young woman, IT profession, she thought about it for a while and then stepped forward. “And that was when two clerks they questioned my disability – he says – and it was not even enough to show the health documents that certify it. In front of everyone, and therefore violating privacy, an employee told me that the queue skips when you are not able to walk and that I, on the other hand, seemed fit. And the colleague also showed doubts, making me criticize even by people who arrived before me who questioned my disability ».
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The ASL document certifying the disease–
Eventually that queue got past, Anna, but she complains that she was humiliated and that she was very badly there. “It was enough if they read the documents attesting to my illness without making me look like a profiteering liar,” she explains. It is not the first time, unfortunately. «Some time ago I had parked the car in the place dedicated to the disabled as I am allowed – he says – and a gentleman after looking at me told me that he would call the hyenas and call me a fraud. In short, my fault is that of being a sick person who still resists her illness. Does it seem right to you? ».
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19 December 2020 (change December 19, 2020 | 12:06)
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