Latheesha Ansari dreams of clearing the civil services, and she has the determination to see it through. However, she also has a rare genetic disorder that threatens to bring her down. During her first attempt at cracking the preliminary examination conducted by the Union Public Services Commission on Sunday, the 25-year-old woman's parents had to bring along two oxygen cylinders all the way from Kottayam to the test centre at Thiruvananthapuram.