{"id":4059,"date":"2014-03-26T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:01","slug":"lilly-lies-in-wait-for-a-new-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lilly-lies-in-wait-for-a-new-kidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly lies in wait for a new kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Words: <\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong> Jay Town<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4061\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Lilly.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4061\" alt=\"Lilly\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Lilly-210x160.jpeg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly Chugg from Launceston is being treated for chronic kidney disease at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every night for the past two years, Lilly Chugg has been tucked into bed, given a goodnight kiss and hooked up for a lifesaving ritual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For 10 hours, without fail, her blood is filtered for toxins. It&#8217;s a vital job that her malformed kidneys are no longer capable of at just six years of age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe can tell you how to set her machine up, and if she could lift them five kilo fluid bags she&#8217;d probably do it herself,\u201d said mum Tamika Boulter.<\/p>\n<p>A donation of a new kidney is now her only chance of a healthy life. Lilly was born with bilateral renal dysplasia, where both kidneys aren&#8217;t formed properly before birth.<\/p>\n<p>One in every 1000 children will have this malformation of their kidney, but just one in a million will develop kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun Lilly Chugg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/lilly-lies-in-wait-for-a-new-kidney\/story-fni0fit3-1226865609062\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to <a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a> or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night for the past two years, Lilly Chugg has been tucked into bed, given a goodnight kiss and hooked up for a lifesaving ritual.<\/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-4059","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\/4059","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=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}