{"id":4036,"date":"2014-03-21T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:54:30","slug":"connors-fight-against-hirschsprungs-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/connors-fight-against-hirschsprungs-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor’s fight against Hirschsprung’s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"connor<\/a>Since birth, Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0patient\u00a0Connor Anderson has suffered severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea every\u00a0two months. His illness comes as a symptom of Hirschsprung\u2019s disease, a condition that affects only 1 in every 25,000 children.<\/p>\n

Connor’s mother Libby Middleton has grown all too familiar with the cyclical bouts of violent illness, that take hold of her son as soon as he stops eating.\u00a0It is not uncommon for Connor to be admitted\u00a0to the RCH, when his sickness has left him severely weak and dehydrated.<\/p>\n

Connor is missing nerves in his bowel that compromise its ability to contract and relax. When he was two years old,\u00a0Connor\u00a0underwent the common repair for Hirschsprung’s know\u00a0as\u00a0a “pull-through”, where the\u00a0missing\u00a0nerve cells of the large intestine were removed, and the\u00a0healthy parts connected to his bottom. Yet, with the intestines playing such an integral role in the body’s immune responses,\u00a0Connor has continued to suffer\u00a0from gasto-like illnesses.<\/p>\n

With the cycles of Connor’s sickness\u00a0speeding up, there is a pressing need to correct the illness before his ability to fight infection is compromised. Colorectal surgeon Sebastian King\u00a0expects Connor to outgrow the recurring infections once he\u00a0is able to control his bowels.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n

To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to\u00a0goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Royal Children’s Hospital patient Connor has Hirschsprung\u2019s disease, a condition that affects only 1 in every 25,000 children.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","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=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}