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Freya Haydon
Diagnosed 2014
I was just surprised to be called out of my primary school classroom as I didn’t feel ill.
Freya Haydon resists looking at photographs of herself when she was nine. That was when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and, as she says: “I had no idea what was going on at the time. Looking back, it upsets me to think about how I had to cope with everything that diabetes brings at such a young age.”