Little Phoebe Malbon spent time baking Hello Kitty buns at her Elland home.
But the smiling two-year-old is one brave youngster.
Last year, she battled for life in hospital after being diagnosed with life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis and Type 1 diabetes.
It means she initially had to spend 62 hours on a drip in the high-dependency unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital, with her parents Lianne Hrosulak and Ross Malbon at her bedside.
And since then the youngster has to undergo up to a dozen blood tests a day and up to five injections of insulin into her tiny legs.
Her bravery has inspired mum Lianne to organise a fundraising charity dinner to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She hopes that research will hopefully lead to a cure.
Lianne, of Westbury Street, Elland, has arranged the dinner at Elland Cricket Club on June 27 with friend Kelly Miller.
She said: “It is heartbreaking to see what Phoebe has to go through but she is an absolute superstar.
“It is hard for her to understand why she has to have her blood tested and why she has to have injections, and why she cannot do things other kids can.
“Phoebe was diagnosed with DKA and Type 1 diabetes at the age of 18 months. She had been ill for weeks with what nurses said was a viral infection but one day she went for her afternoon nap, slept for four hours and I couldn’t wake her up.
“I rushed her to the doctor and within 20 minutes he had her in Calderdale hospital. They put her on the drip having diagnosed DKA and Type 1 diabetes but she was so poorly.
“She was in the unit for 62 hours and it was only after 48 hours that staff said she started to respond.
“Twelve months on, nothing could have prepared Ross and myself for the challenges we had to face. We have to take up to 10 or 12 finger pricks tests a day to test blood sugar levels and give her up to five injections a day in her tiny little legs.
“Having to subject our daughter to any kind of pain whilst dealing with the daily worries that came with the diagnosis is heartbreaking. Also having to disturb her sleep at 2am every day for hypo treatment is not what a child should have to go through”.There are practical problems for the family as they have to watch Phoebe’s excercise and playtimes as her blood sugar levels could dip or go too high.
And they have to carefully “carb count” everything she eats to balance it with the insulin.
“I will do my utmost to raise the awareness of Type 1 diabetes and do what is physically possible to raise money to help fund research into a cure”, said Lianna.
“So many people suffer with type 1 diabetes everyday and more research is needed. I hope one day they fine a cure so that my little girl and so many others can have this burden taken away”.
To support Lianne log on to www.justgiving.com/lianne-hrosulak or text DIVA80 and the amount to 70070.
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