{"id":1988,"date":"2012-04-06T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:52:04","slug":"bilals-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/bilals-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilal&#8217;s blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1989\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/04\/06\/bilals-blessing\/bilal-hassan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1989\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/04\/bilal-hassan-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bilal Hassan after open heart surgery at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A\u00a0footy injury was a blessing in disguise for Bilal Hassan, saving his life.<\/p>\n<p>A sharp-eyed Thomastown Meadows Primary School staffer examining the 10-year-old&#8217;s bruised thumb noticed his fingers were blue.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested he go straight to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital, where doctors discovered he had a hole in his heart and a malformed chamber.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-hour operation on Bilal a fortnight ago, RCH cardiac surgeon Prof Konstantinov repaired the hole, reshaped his malformed right ventricle and reworked some of the plumbing.<\/p>\n<p>The Lalor lad, now expected to lead a full and happy life, went home yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Words by Marianne Betts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bilal Hassan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/race-is-on-to-beat-good-friday-appeals-record-of-151-million\/story-fn7x8me2-1226320092813\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A footy injury was a blessing in disguise for Bilal Hassan, saving his life.<\/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-1988","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\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}