{"id":4101,"date":"2014-04-02T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:39","slug":"little-rison-holds-out-hope-for-gift-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/little-rison-holds-out-hope-for-gift-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Rison holds out hope for gift of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4102\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/643137-1f2ccc4e-ba18-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4102\" alt=\"643137-1f2ccc4e-ba18-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/643137-1f2ccc4e-ba18-11e3-9580-78f49dffd642-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite his plight, Rison Gamage still can pull a big smile. 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>Every day Rison Gamage\u2019s parents wake praying this will be the day of his rebirth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is a cruel reality when hoping for another family\u2019s tragedy means a new life for your own. The 11-month-old\u2019s yellow eyes are the tell-tale sign that he needs the life-saving gift of a new liver.<\/p>\n<p>At The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Rison was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition Biliary atresia, in which blocked bile ducts from the liver cause toxins to build up in the body.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/little-rison-holds-out-hope-for-gift-of-life\/story-fnls7nyz-1226872643619\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story in the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p><b>To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to <a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a> or phone 9292 1166<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day Rison Gamage\u2019s parents wake praying this will be the day of his rebirth, that he will be given a new liver and the gift of life.<\/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-4101","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\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}