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Freya's Story

For many kids, Eastertime is all about chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and visits from the Easter bunny.

But for more than 1,200 WA children with diabetes it’s a tricky time of year.

Kids with diabetes like Freya have to take care of what they eat over Easter.

Freya’s diabetes diagnosis came with little warning. On her seventh birthday she barely touched her celebratory pizza and birthday cake. She was incredibly thirsty and needed to keep rushing to the toilet but with cases of flu going around, her mum and dad just thought she was coming down with something minor.

The next day she was back to normal. But by the weekend, Freya was lethargic, and her parents noticed that she appeared to have lost a significant amount of weight in just a matter of days. They made a mental note to take her to the doctor the following week.

Then, things took a turn for the worse. That night, they noticed Freya breathing rapidly in her sleep. It wasn’t normal. They made a midnight dash to Perth Children’s Hospital and got there just in time. Freya was hooked up to multiple lines as healthcare staff rushed to find out what was wrong.

“We were told Freya was really sick and had DKA, diabetic ketoacidosis,” said her dad, Frankie. “Your body can’t really operate with that, and the next step is that the organs start shutting down, it was pretty frightening.”

DKA is a life-threatening complication of diabetes and develops when the body doesn’t get enough insulin.

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