{"id":2670,"date":"2013-03-26T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:40:18","slug":"caleb-scarlett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/caleb-scarlett\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb is walking tall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2675\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2013\/03\/26\/caleb-scarlett\/untitled-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2675\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/untitled6-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb undergoing rehabilitation at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In three-weeks eight-year-old Caleb Scarlett will have the plaster removed from his legs after surgery at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) to break his thigh bones and rotate his legs.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb has cerebral palsy and has always walked with both knees and feet bent inwards.\u00a0It took four surgeons three hours to rotate Caleb&#8217;s twisted femurs and fix them with metal plates, and also release tendons in his calves to stop Caleb walking on his toes.<\/p>\n<p>With Caleb preparing to return to school after Easter, his mum Cathy Scarlett said this would mean the start of a new life for her son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this is the turning point for him where he can become more independent,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donate to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital Good Friday Appeal at <a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun Caleb Scarlett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/surgery-a-step-in-the-right-direction-for-brave-caleb-scarlett\/story-e6frf7kx-1226605829407\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see more photos of Caleb and read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_body) --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year-old Caleb has cerebral palsy and will walk with straight legs for the first time after surgery, treatment and rehabilitation at the RCH.<\/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-2670","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\/2670","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=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}