article_snippet.sent: Ms Barber first discovered Ms Barber was battling with pulmonary embolisms in 2012, when Ms Barber was 22-years-old.
article_snippet.sent: Then Ms Barber started coughing up blood, struggling to catch Ms Barber breath and suffering from chest and neck pains
article_snippet.sent: so Ms Barber mother Carol Mack, 54, and stepfather Bob Tomkins, 57, decided to rush Ms Barber to hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Despite many tests, nothing could explain what had caused Ms Barber pulmonary embolisms.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Barber said: 'I had to inject Ms Barber every month
article_snippet.sent: Because of anxiety, when Ms Barber got a similar pain again in May 2013 - almost exactly a year later - Ms Barber just thought that Ms Barber was being paranoid and chose to ignore it.
article_snippet.sent: Luckily, Ms Barber eventually forced Ms Barber to go back to hospital and a CT scan revealed
article_snippet.sent: The shock of being diagnosed twice has meant Ms Barber has decided to turn her life around.
article_snippet.sent: Some doctors advised Ms Barber shouldn't exercise because the pulmonary embolisms meant her lungs ability to pump oxygen around the body was reduced.
article_snippet.sent: But Ms Barber is uncertain whether Ms Barber reduced lung capacity