{"id":4132,"date":"2014-04-07T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:51:52","slug":"little-buddies-all-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/little-buddies-all-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Little buddies all heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4133\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/076045-fbad04ec-bd36-11e3-8789-ebc1372b1494.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4133\" alt=\"076045-fbad04ec-bd36-11e3-8789-ebc1372b1494\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/076045-fbad04ec-bd36-11e3-8789-ebc1372b1494-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH cardiac patients Abigail and Penny. 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>The playful nature and cheeky smiles of Abigail McDonald and Penny Jones hides the stories of two girls with broken hearts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The little friends met while recovering in The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s Koala Ward, where children stay after heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Penny, 2, had a cardiac monitor implanted to detect abnormal heart rhythms that accompany Long QT syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Kaydee Horne, who also has the condition, said because of their strong family history, doctors were keen to monitor Penny\u2019s health early.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her little buddy, four-year-old Abigail, was born with half a heart.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/girls-all-heart-facing-challenges\/story-fnls7nyz-1226876076482\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playful nature and cheeky smiles of Abigail McDonald and Penny Jones hides the stories of two girls with broken hearts.<\/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-4132","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\/4132","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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}