{"id":1966,"date":"2012-04-06T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:51:38","slug":"aston-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/aston-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why we need to give"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1967\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/04\/06\/aston-crow\/103528-aston-crow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1967\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1967\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/04\/103528-aston-crow-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two-year-old Aston Crow plays with his teddy at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aston Crow has been playing a waiting game that is nearly over.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old is on the brink of a life-saving bone marrow transplant that will cure him of the rare leukaemia that has plagued him for more than eight months.<\/p>\n<p>His five weeks so far at the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital began with five days of chemotherapy to start preparing him for his risky transplant.<\/p>\n<p>And since then doctors have been waiting for his little body to recover so he is strong enough to undergo a second round of chemotherapy, followed swiftly by the transplant, later this month.<\/p>\n<p>RCH children&#8217;s cancer centre transplant head Dr Francoise Mechinaud said &#8220;He&#8217;s adjusting very well, he&#8217;s very well supported by his parents &#8230; he&#8217;s not scared, he is a happy child&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Words by Marianne Betts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aston Crow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/this-is-why-we-need-to-give\/story-fn7x8me2-1226320160814\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on Aston on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-year-old Aston Crow is waiting for a life-saving bone marrow transplant at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/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-1966","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\/1966","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=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}