{"id":1819,"date":"2012-03-19T03:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:52:27","slug":"veronica-bazouni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/veronica-bazouni\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica saved by new liver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1820\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/19\/veronica-bazouni\/176709-veronica-bazouni\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1820\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/176709-veronica-bazouni-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Veronica Bazouni with her sister Mary, 3. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seven-month-old Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital patient Veronica Bazouni had not long to live when she was saved by a liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s very lucky to be alive,&#8221; Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital liver transplant program head Associate Prof Winita Hardikar said.<\/p>\n<p>When a donor liver became available, the Essendon infant was in end-stage liver failure.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Carol Bazouni said two days after her birth, Veronica had begun to turn yellow.<\/p>\n<p>A biopsy found her liver to be extremely scarred and with very few functioning liver cells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was getting sicker every day until the last minute when she stopped feeding &#8211; and that night they found the liver,&#8221; Mrs Bazouni said.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica is now doing well. &#8220;She&#8217;s a strong baby &#8230; she&#8217;s eating, playing, laughing, a normal kid now &#8211; it&#8217;s amazing,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Veronica Bazouni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/veronicas-new-lease-on-life-thanks-to-the-selflessness-of-another\/story-fn7x8me2-1226303195862\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-month-old Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital patient Veronica Bazouni had not long to live when she was saved by a liver transplant.<\/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-1819","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\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}