{"id":2717,"date":"2013-03-28T05:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:40:21","slug":"chanels-wish-is-coming-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/chanels-wish-is-coming-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanel&#8217;s wish is coming true"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2779\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2013\/03\/28\/chanels-wish-is-coming-true\/chanel1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2779\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2779\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/Chanel11-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanel back home after surgery. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eight-year-old was born with craniosynostosis, a condition caused by the growth plates that move to give room to the growing brain closing too early. When Chanel was born she had a tower-shaped head, which was applying too much pressure to her brain.<\/p>\n<p>At just 10 months of age, surgeons at the RCH remodeled Chanel&#8217;s skull bone to relieve pressure from the fused plates. Although this surgery created space for Chanel\u2019s brain to develop, it left her with one temple hallowed in and the other curved out.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel\u2019s dad John said that she always wants to wear her hair down, \u201cwith her long hair, she tends to hid her temples and face with it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, surgeons operated on Chanel to correct her temples. The much anticipated surgery required using bone substitute to correct the shape of her temples, bringing Chanel closer to her wish of looking more like her friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanel just wants to look like a normal girl\u201d John said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chanel Palace\u2019s wish to look more like her friends is becoming reality after surgery to correct the shape of her temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"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-2717","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\/2717","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}