{"id":80,"date":"2011-04-22T05:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=80"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:58:41","slug":"isabella-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/isabella-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2011\/04\/22\/isabella-davis\/isabelladavis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"IsabellaDavis\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/IsabellaDavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>Isabella Davis has suffered hundreds of seizures a day in her short life because she has a genetic disorder which produces hard lumps, or tubers, in her brain.<\/p>\n<p>The growths spark seizures, and their constant bombardment has disrupted the toddler&#8217;s brain development .<\/p>\n<p>Specialists at the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital implanted electrodes in her brain to track the seizures, before conducting delicate surgery to remove the tubers causing most disruption.<\/p>\n<p>It is her best chance for a life free of seizures, but it will be weeks, maybe months, before the medical team know if it has worked.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/ipad\/baby-bellas-brave-fight\/story-fn6bfmgc-1226043166460\">Baby Bella&#8217;s brave fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See and hear more patient stories\u00a0on Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.heraldsun.com.au\/rch2011\/\">Stories of survival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabella Davis has suffered hundreds of seizures a day in her short life because she has a genetic disorder which produces hard lumps, or tubers, in her brain. The growths spark seizures, and their constant bombardment has disrupted the toddler&#8217;s brain development . Specialists at the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital implanted electrodes in her brain to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/isabella-davis\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}