The story of Rebecca
After a healthy, risk free pregnancy, Freyja was born and was almost immediately jaundice. After blue light therapy and lots of blood testing, she was diagnosed with PK Deficiency which is a inherited metabolic disorder of the enzyme pyruvate kinase which affects the survival of red blood cells. Causing Freyja to be anemic. A lot of people with PK deficiency are blood transfusion dependent and there other complications that come with the deficiency. We have been lucky that Freyja has not had to have any blood transfusion yet and at 16 months old, she is doing amazingly.