{"id":4149,"date":"2014-04-06T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:51:43","slug":"lara-gets-a-new-chance-at-life-from-her-tiny-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lara-gets-a-new-chance-at-life-from-her-tiny-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara gets a new chance at life from her tiny brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Lucie van den Berg<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Alex Coppel<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4151\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/609828-45aa732c-bbd4-11e3-ada0-f27aaeaffaeb.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4151\" alt=\"RCH patient Lara Nelson gets a kiss from her brother Asher. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/609828-45aa732c-bbd4-11e3-ada0-f27aaeaffaeb-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Lara Nelson gets a kiss from her brother Asher. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asher Nelson was just 24 hours old when his big sister Lara was diagnosed with leukaemia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, almost three years later, he could be the key to saving her life.<\/p>\n<p>Asher will soon become Lara\u2019s bone marrow donor in a bid to help her overcome cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Lara was two and a half when she was first diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, Amber said their little girl had been lethargic and ill, but doctors blamed it on childcare bugs.<\/p>\n<p>It was the day after Asher\u2019s birth that Lara\u2019s leukaemia diagnosis was confirmed at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sunday Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/fiveyearold-lara-gets-a-new-chance-at-life-from-her-tiny-brother\/story-fnls7nyz-1226875609854#social-comments\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Sunday 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>Asher Nelson was just 24 hours old when his big sister Lara was diagnosed with leukaemia.<br \/>\nNow, almost three years later, he could be the key to saving her 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-4149","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\/4149","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=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}