{"id":2153,"date":"2012-08-27T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:50","slug":"pixie-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/pixie-fitzgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixie takes everything in her stride"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2155\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/08\/27\/pixie-fitzgerald\/704453-pixie-fitzgerald\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2155\" title=\"704453-pixie-fitzgerald\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/08\/704453-pixie-fitzgerald-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pixie Fitzgerald and fundraiser Alexander Petrou in Pixie&#8217;s room at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday,\u00a0volunteer fundraiser Alexander Petrou began walking 77km from Melbourne to Geelong to raise money in support of Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital patient Pixie Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, the brave five-year-old was diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer and has since endured countless procedures including operations, chemotherapies and blood transfusions.<\/p>\n<p>RCH oncologist Leanne Super said: &#8220;She is very bright, very bubbly, she&#8217;s doing all of the right things, and she&#8217;s coping extremely well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a long road of treatments ahead,\u00a0fundraisers are hoping to raise enough money for the family of five to\u00a0extend their\u00a0two-bedroom house\u00a0so that Pixie can have a room of her own, and hopefully spend more time\u00a0at home\u00a0with her family.<\/p>\n<p>Pixie&#8217;s mum Kylyn White said: &#8220;She&#8217;s amazing, she&#8217;s very resilient &#8230; she just takes it in her stride, she&#8217;s really happy, smiley, just like any five-year-old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To support Pixie go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiefitzgeraldfundraiser.com\">www.pixiefitzgeraldfundraiser.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pixie Fitzgerald\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/striding-out-for-a-girl-who-takes-everything-in-her-stride\/story-e6frf7kx-1226457705545\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave Pixie Fitzgerald has a rare germ cell cancer. Friends and family are raising money to build Pixie her own bedroom so she can spend more time at home with her family.<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}