{"id":1797,"date":"2012-03-16T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:55:15","slug":"lilly-chug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lilly-chug\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly is one in a million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RCH patient Lilly Chugg. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No one knew four-year-old Lilly Chugg was dangerously ill until she struggled to breathe one day last month.<\/p>\n

Within hours of seeing her GP in Tasmania, Lilly was\u00a0airlifted to\u00a0The\u00a0Royal Children’s Hospital where she\u00a0was\u00a0fighting for her life with kidney failure and subsequent heart failure.<\/p>\n

Royal Children’s Hospital nephrologist Dr Joshua Kausman said Lilly’s condition, called renal dysplasia, affects one in every 1000 children, but just one in a million develops kidney failure.<\/p>\n

Lilly’s kidneys were small and scarred, and she will need nightly dialysis until she can have a kidney transplant, which will give her the best chance at a normal life.<\/p>\n

Relatives are being tested to find a suitable match but, if not, Lilly will have to wait for a donor organ.<\/p>\n

“She’s definitely strong and brave. I don’t care how long our road is, as long as she’s alive,” Lilly’s mum\u00a0Tamika Boulter said.<\/p>\n

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