{"id":2343,"date":"2012-11-20T02:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:33","slug":"isla-hallam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/isla-hallam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Isla&#8217;s ballet debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2344\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/11\/20\/isla-hallam-2\/isla-hs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2344\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/Isla-HS-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Isla Hallam prepares for her ballet class. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After two years of receiving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)\u00a0at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH), Isla Hallam is finally able to experience a sense of normality, including starting ballet class with her friends.<\/p>\n<p>Isla, now\u00a0three-years-old, was diagnosed with ALL two days before Christmas in 2010. Since then,\u00a0she has\u00a0needed 21 lumbar punctures, 16 blood transfusions and had 17 hospital admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Isla still has five months left\u00a0of her chemotherapy\u00a0regime, which\u00a0Director of the RCH Children&#8217;s Cancer Centre, Dr Francoise Mechinaud, said was vital protection to ensure the cancer did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Isla&#8217;s mum Anne Hallam said that chemotherapy made Isla&#8217;s bones sore and muscles weak and she was finding it hard to walk, but now she is doing well. &#8220;Ballet has been great from a physio point of view, because now she can even walk on her tippy toes the whole length of the church hall,&#8221; said Anne.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Isla Hallam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/isla-hallam-3-takes-ballet-classes-after-two-years-of-painful-cancer-treatment-for-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia\/story-e6frf7kx-1226519892126\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of receiving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital, Isla Hallam is finally able to experience a sense of normality, including starting ballet class with her friends.<\/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-2343","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\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}