{"id":173,"date":"2011-04-02T05:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=173"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:00:34","slug":"myra-murfett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/myra-murfett\/","title":{"rendered":"Myra Murfett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/292942-myra-murfett_225_px1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/>For a six-year-old, Myra has had to endure a lot of pain and angst.\u00a0 Two years ago she accidentally drank cleaning product, which badly burned her oesophagus.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-corrosive liquid ulcerated and scarred her tissue.\u00a0 Since then, she&#8217;s made the arduous five-hour journey from her home in southern New South Wales for treatment at the RCH every fortnight for treatment to stretch the constricted part of her oesophagus.<\/p>\n<p>RCH Director of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition A\/Professor Tony Catto-Smith says Myra&#8217;s &#8220;a remarkable young girl&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/myra-murfett-cannot-swallow-without-help-but-she-keeps-smiling\/story-fn7x8me2-1226032294549\">Myra Murfett cannot swallow without help but she keep on trying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a six-year-old, Myra has had to endure a lot of pain and angst.\u00a0 Two years ago she accidentally drank cleaning product, which badly burned her oesophagus. The highly-corrosive liquid ulcerated and scarred her tissue.\u00a0 Since then, she&#8217;s made the arduous five-hour journey from her home in southern New South Wales for treatment at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/myra-murfett\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}