Lights, camera, activism

This is Hayley, she’s now in her early 30s… and was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s aged just 25 – not long after she’d had her first child. Hayley is a working mum, bringing up two kids with her husband Gareth. She is contributing to the economy and the future of this country, yet her frequency of neurologist and specialist nurse appointments, frankly, could be better. Pretty and petite, Hayley is no stranger to being told ‘but you’re too young to have Parkinson’s’. It’s perhaps what we would all like to believe – if only it were true…