{"id":4066,"date":"2014-03-27T03:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:05","slug":"liamm-and-his-bear-billie-will-rattle-the-rch-tin-for-good-friday-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/liamm-and-his-bear-billie-will-rattle-the-rch-tin-for-good-friday-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liamm and his bear Billie will rattle the RCH tin for Good Friday Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0Jay Town<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4072\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Liamm.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4072\" alt=\"Liamm\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Liamm-210x160.jpeg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liamm Tokley at the RCH with his bear, Billie. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liamm Tokley went out under the anaesthetic giggling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He could see Billie the Bear, also wearing a blue surgical cap and identification bracelet, also being put to sleep at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>It was these little kind touches by Royal Children\u2019s Hospital nurses towards the five-year-old that mum Sarah Tokley said erased any pre-surgery anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got to him in recovery, they\u2019d put Band-Aids on Billie in the same spot they had on Liamm,\u201d Ms Tokley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just something so sweet that the nurses did for him. It made such a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun Liamm Tokley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/liamm-and-his-bear-billie-will-rattle-the-rch-tin-for-good-friday-appeal\/story-fni0fit3-1226867322832\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These little kind touches by Royal Children\u2019s Hospital nurses towards five-year-old Liamm erased any pre-surgery anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","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\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}