{"id":1762,"date":"2012-03-12T06:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:55:04","slug":"emily-manlaros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/emily-manlaros\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily&#8217;s back on her feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1763\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/12\/emily-manlaros\/336043-emily-manolaros\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1763\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1763 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/336043-emily-manolaros-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Emily Manolaros. Photo courtesy of Herald Sun photographer Ben Swinnerton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Emily Manolaros was admitted to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) after she collapsed at school on March 1. The five-year-old was paralysed by Guillain Barre syndrome, a life-threatening disease where the immune system attacks nerves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She lost her speech, walking, movement &#8211; she was actually paralysed,&#8221; Ms Petrovska said. After laying motionless for four days she began to take her first steps unaided, which Ms Petrovska said was a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>RCH neurologist Dr Jeremy Freeman said Guillain Barre syndrome was rare, affecting fewer than one in 100,000 Australian children each year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Emily Manalaros\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/she-wants-to-stand-on-her-own-two-feet\/story-fn7x8me2-1226296473128\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Manolaros was admitted to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) after she collapsed at school on March 1. The five-year-old was paralysed by Guillain Barre syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}