{"id":1958,"date":"2012-04-04T05:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:54:31","slug":"montana-drew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/montana-drew\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana and the five-cent coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1959\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/04\/04\/montana-drew\/montana-drew-420x0\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1959\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/04\/montana-drew-420x0-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Montana Drew. Photo courtesy of The Age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four-year-old Montana Drew is finally able to eat an icy pole after\u00a0Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) surgeons removed\u00a0a five-cent coin from her oesophagus last month.<\/p>\n<p>Montana had been unwell for six-months after a holiday in Thailand with her family late last year. After months of vomiting up to 30 times a day, x-rays at the RCH finally revealed the cause of Montana&#8217;s mystery illness.<\/p>\n<p>RCH surgeon Dr Joe Crameri said he sent a camera down Montana&#8217;s throat, but the scar tissue was so thick the coin wasn&#8217;t visible. A dye test revealed only a trickle of liquid could get through the blockage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I was absolutely gobsmacked,&#8221; said Montana&#8217;s mum\u00a0Tania Martin. &#8221;We were told the coin could have been swallowed years before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took a seven-hour operation to remove the coin by cutting into the side of Montana&#8217;s chest and opening the oesophagus. And during a week in intensive care, Montana&#8217;s lung collapsed twice.<\/p>\n<p>Montana is now doing well and is hoping to be able to eat Easter eggs when the Easter Bunny visits the RCH.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Montana Drew\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/montana-alive-and-healthy-after-nearfatal-brush-with-5cent-coin-20120403-1wavo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on The Age website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-year-old Montana Drew is finally able to eat an icy-pole after Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) surgeons removed a five-cent coin from her oesophagus last month.<\/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-1958","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\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}