{"id":1992,"date":"2012-04-06T07:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:52:07","slug":"cassandra-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/cassandra-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassie flies home for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1993\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/04\/06\/cassandra-adams\/cassandra-adams\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1993\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/04\/cassandra-adams-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra with mum Rachel at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After battling a mysterious bout of pancreatitis, Cassandra Adams has been reunited with identical twin sister Eleanor to celebrate their third birthday today.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra left The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital yesterday, flying back to Darwin, where dad Tim said there would be plenty of cake and Easter eggs to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>A fortnight ago, the toddler fell seriously ill, vomiting, grey-faced and lapsing and in and out of consciousness, and had exploratory abdominal surgery at the Royal Darwin Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A scan later revealed her pancreas, which secretes enzymes to digest food, was the problem and she was flown to Melbourne for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Words by Marianne Betts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cassandra Adams\" 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>After battling a mysterious bout of pancreatitis, Cassandra Adams has been reunited with identical twin sister Eleanor to celebrate their third birthday.<\/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-1992","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\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}