Without My Parents Help I Would Eat Myself To Death, BORN DIFFERENT
SUBSCRIBE to Truly: CAMILLE, from Connecticut, lives with a rare genetic condition called PraderWilli Syndrome, a condition best known for creating an insatiable sense of hunger in the individual. The craving is so strong that if left alone and with access to food, a person with PraderWilli Syndrome could eat themselves to death. That means Larry and Camilles mother Kim must create a completely food secure environment, including padlocking kitchen cabinets and having an alarm on the kitchen door to stop Camille foraging for snacks. Camilles sneakiness around food has earned her the nickname the stealth ninja, but despite her everpresent hunger, people with PraderWilli have low muscle tone and burn calories slowly, meaning she is required to subsist on a diet of 1, 0001, 200 calories a day. Larry said: PraderWilli syndrome is what Camille lives with, its the diagnosis shes been given, but it certainly does not define her. She is so much more, shes loving, caring, kind,
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