{"id":7993,"date":"2020-04-08T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:14:39","slug":"hailey-grins-and-bears-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/hailey-grins-and-bears-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey grins and bears it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Words:<\/strong> Alanah Frost, Herald Sun<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photography:<\/strong> Alex Coppel, Herald Sun<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hailey Wright has five different headbands but, if you ask her, she could do with a few more. And maybe a bandana, to match her nurse bear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bright-eyed six-year old has been at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital for more than three months, battling a rare type of leukaemia caused by a condition known as myelodysplastic syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Hailey\u2019s condition means she has a build-up of defective or \u201crubbish\u201d cells, which fill her bone marrow and cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Hailey\u2019s parents, Leah Wright and Steve Dobe, were nursing a five-week-old baby at the time they got the diagnosis on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told she had probably about nine to 12 months here (in hospital), and that depended on how<br \/>\nher treatment went,\u201d Ms Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>The young family had to move 300km from Wodonga to Melbourne, while Hailey\u2019s twin brother, Will, has moved<br \/>\nin with family near Bendigo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019ll wake up from her general anaesthetic and she\u2019ll be like, \u2018Where\u2019s Will?\u2019\u201d Ms Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>Hailey will now spend weeks in a special isolation unit to prepare her for a bone-marrow transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors said that, without the transplant, her condition would be \u201cincurable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just tell her it\u2019s the next stop in getting better,\u201d Ms Wright said. \u201cShe\u2019s very tough. She\u2019s been a fighter since she was born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailey Wright has five different headbands but, if you ask her, she could do with a few more. And maybe a bandana, to match her nurse bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":7994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/8001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}