{"id":4163,"date":"2014-04-14T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:51:00","slug":"isabella-ready-to-join-in-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/isabella-ready-to-join-in-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella ready to join in the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Courtney Crane<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Leanne Churchill<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4166\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/448984-af51cc82-c2ad-11e3-a921-41a0cd843767.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4166\" alt=\"448984-af51cc82-c2ad-11e3-a921-41a0cd843767\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/448984-af51cc82-c2ad-11e3-a921-41a0cd843767-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Isabella O&#8217;Connell was born with no immune system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Isabella O\u2019Connell could have been killed by a cold before a miracle 40ml bag of bone marrow saved her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born with little to no \u00adimmune system, it\u2019s hard to \u00adbelieve the giggling, energetic Bannockburn 2\u00bd-year-old was once so ill she needed a morphine shot to change her nappy.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency at 20 months after a series of mystery rashes and illnesses, and has spent much of her young life in isolation at home, and at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Connell said the dedication of RCH staff and volunteers had been \u201cincredible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you could give them everything you had, you would,\u201d he said, holding Isa\u00adbella in his arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the best thanks we can give right here \u2014 our little girl being alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Geelong Advertiser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\/news\/geelong\/isabella-ready-to-join-in-the-fun\/story-fnjuhovy-1226883449012\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Geelong Advertiser.<\/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>Isabella O\u2019Connell could have been killed by a cold before a bone marrow transplant saved 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-4163","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\/4163","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=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}