{"id":2414,"date":"2012-12-29T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:45:42","slug":"lola-cartwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lola-cartwright\/","title":{"rendered":"A happy new year for Lola"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2415\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/12\/29\/lola-cartwright\/795322-lola-cartwright\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2415\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/795322-lola-cartwright-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Lola Cartwright with her parents Kelly and Leigh. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lola Cartwright has spent most of the first year of her life at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH), but after a long battle the brave one-year-old is finally ready to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Lola was born with a liver condition called\u00a0Biliary Atresia, which\u00a0affects just one in 15,000-20,000 children. Over the last six-months she has endured intensive treatment at the RCH, culminating\u00a0in a liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>RCH\u00a0gastroenterologist, Dr George Alex said about 30 per cent of those diagnosed with Biliary Atresia\u00a0needed a liver transplant in the first year of their lives because the condition progressed rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Lola&#8217;s parents Kelly and Leigh Cartwright said there could be no better start to the new year than to have their only child well and back at home. &#8220;It will be amazing to finally go home and start a normal life,&#8221; said mum Kelly.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The RCH has performed a total of nine liver transplants this year.\u00a0In October we celebrated the 100th liver transplant since the first was performed at the RCH in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>To register to become an organ donor visit the <a title=\"Australian Organ Donor Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanservices.gov.au\/customer\/services\/medicare\/australian-organ-donor-register?utm_id=9\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Organ Donor Register<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun Lola Cartwright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/lola-cartwright-finally-ready-to-go-home-after-liver-transplant-at-royal-childrens-hospital\/story-e6frf7kx-1226544798757\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on Lola on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_body) --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lola Cartwright has spent most of the first year of her life at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital, but after a long battle the brave one-year-old is finally ready to go home.<\/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-2414","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\/2414","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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}