{"id":5128,"date":"2015-09-01T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2015-11-09T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:30:55","slug":"rch-patients-nominated-for-the-pride-of-australia-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-patients-nominated-for-the-pride-of-australia-award\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH patients nominated for the Pride of Australia award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/RoseSpence.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5129 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/RoseSpence-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"RoseSpence\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/RoseSpence-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/09\/RoseSpence.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>13-year-old Rose Spence has been a patient at the RCH for two years, after she was diagnosed with a six-centimeter tumour in her spine.<\/p>\n<p>From the Herald Sun:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI assumed cancer was for adults and older people, I didn\u2019t think a child could get it,\u201d Rose said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What followed was chemotherapy, biopsies, surgery, steroids, stronger chemo, another surgery. The repeated surgeries caused a weakness in her back, leading to a spinal fusion, rods and screws keeping her neck in place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But through it all, Rose kept a smile on her face that\u2019s helped her family cope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think humour is the only way to get through it sometimes,\u201d said the teen, nominated for the Pride of Australia Child of Courage medal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDad says I\u2019ve got curves in all the wrong places.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11-year-old Luke Shambrook, who spent a week recovering at the RCH after surviving alone in bushland for five days, has also been nominated for the award.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more and even vote for Rose or Luke in the &#8216;People\u2019s Choice Medal&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1KxfjIY\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Spence and Luke Shambrook are finalists in the &#8216;Child of Courage&#8217; category. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":5135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}