{"id":4095,"date":"2014-03-19T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:54:22","slug":"chrysi-finally-home-with-twin-sister-nefeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/chrysi-finally-home-with-twin-sister-nefeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysi finally home with twin sister Nefeli"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4096\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/JT2_0890-COPY.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4096\" alt=\"RCH Chrysi Tsimarakis\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/JT2_0890-COPY-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrysi with mum Helen and dad George. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jay Town<\/p>\n<p>Chrysi Tsimarakis and her\u00a0identical twin sister, Nefeli,\u00a0have shared a bond so strong<br \/>\nsince they were conceived\u00a0that it almost cost them both\u00a0their lives.<\/p>\n<p>But today, after spending\u00a0all of her five months alive at The Royal Children\u2019s<br \/>\nHospital (RCH), Chrysi has woken<br \/>\nup at home for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The babies suffered the\u00a0potentially lethal Twin to\u00a0Twin Transfusion Syndrome.\u00a0Through shared foetal\u00a0blood vessels, Nefeli was\u00a0pumped dangerously full of\u00a0blood and nutrients in the\u00a0womb, while Chrysi was\u00a0being starved.<\/p>\n<p>Born at 25 weeks and one\u00a0day, Chrysi was born\u00a0weighing 504g while Nefeli\u00a0weighed 674g.\u00a0For four months Helen\u00a0Tsimarakis and husband\u00a0George walked between\u00a0Chrysi at the RCH and Nefeli\u00a0at the Royal Women\u2019s\u00a0Hospital \u2014 often multiple\u00a0times a day \u2014 to keep watch\u00a0over both girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou take it for granted\u00a0having all your family in the\u00a0one house together,\u201d Ms\u00a0Tsimarakis said.\u00a0\u201cThe hospital is incredible\u00a0for what they\u2019ve done for us.\u201d<\/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>Chrysi Tsimarakis and her identical twin sister, Nefeli, have shared a bond so strong<br \/>\nsince they were conceived that it almost cost them both their lives.<\/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-4095","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\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}