Pensioner with cancer tells of struggles living in damp-ridden flat in Ashford

Barbara Hasiuk speaks about the issues she has with damp at her home in Downland Court, Ashford.

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00:00 I've got leukemia then. I can't breathe right now and there's horrible... I'm

00:07 afraid sometimes to go to the sleep. It's make me... like I said I can't

00:12 breathe. I just go to my neighbors during the night, that was on Saturday, because

00:19 I'm... it was scary, I couldn't breathe. I go into bed and I look like a fish.

00:24 I couldn't... suddenly I think there's a stress when I live so long. They supposed

00:32 to come to the kitchen the first... that was 28th of February and be waiting. I

00:40 remove everything from the kitchen and then around 12 o'clock they supposed to

00:46 come between 11 and 2, then 12 o'clock I've got the message, no... sorry, no

00:53 nothing. And they will come the 13th of March and then next one March I'll be

00:59 waiting and then I've got another message that will come on 22nd or

01:05 something April and then after then I've got another message that will come on

01:11 May. Much worse I've been visit yesterday in the doctor and doctor said I supposed

01:17 to complain. I said I complain for a month, for a year, two years, almost two

01:22 years and he said you cannot live like this in New York, especially nobody

01:27 supposed to live like this, especially in this condition.