EXCLUSIVE: It's another success for brave little battler Freya Harris, who takes Pride Of Britain honours after walking away with a Crufts award earlier this year
Being told your child has a rare and life-threatening cancer is a parent’s worst nightmare. And that’s exactly how it felt to Gemma Harris, 34, and her husband Rikki, 35, in 2021 when their eight-year-old daughter Freya was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumour, a rare kidney cancer that is diagnosed in around 80 children in the UK are each year.
“It took three or four A&E visits until someone decided to refer us,” says Gemma. “A scan was done and quite quickly everything changed. It went from maybe nothing serious to something very serious in a very short space of time and nothing can prepare you for that.” She adds that Freya and Echo have qualified for next year’s Crufts too, but for now, the family is enjoying a little relief between scans and treatments, and enjoying what Gemma describes as a “taste of normality”.
Because of Covid restrictions, Gemma couldn’t be with Freya for her initial diagnosis or during many of her treatments, but she took turns at Freya’s side with her husband Rikki.
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