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Hospital helped Maksim to breathe when he was born

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Hospital helped Maksim to breathe when he was born

Maksim was born with severe case of meconium aspiration. He couldn’t breathe on his own. Wonderful team of medical professionals from RCH came to Maksims rescue.
They performed ECMO on Maksim. Our son spent several weeks at RCH ICU. Maksim is a healthy 10 year old now on his way to becoming the new Australian Open grand slam champion.
Thank you RCH! Forever grateful

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Surgery helps Georgia find her voice

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Surgery helps Georgia find her voice

My daughter Georgia Kylie keeps growing and developing, thanks to the amazing support and care of the teams at the Royal Children’s Hospital! She is now two years old, walking, laughing and dancing to her favourite music! If it wasn’t for the incredible care of the RCH and the amazing professionals, we wouldn’t have realised this! There is still more work to go, as her airway surgery last summer wasn’t a complete success and she still has her tracheostomy. But we get amazing care and support, and we are confident that in the future her airway will be fully fixed and we will be able to go on with a happy, active and fully normal life! I was hoping to participate in the Run for the Kids this year and was able to raise almost $2000 for this great cause and over $3000 from my team. Unfortunately the run didn’t go ahead this year, but I’m even more determined to be back next year, running for all the special little kids!

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Mattea saved from critical injuries

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Mattea saved from critical injuries

Mattea was admitted to emergency in feb 2018 with her little brother Julian as a result of a car accident.
Mattea was critical with severe injuries. She had surgery and was in ICU. Mattea was saved by all the angel doctors and nurses. With all her injuries it was hard to believe she would make it or if she did she wouldnt be herself. But she was. She healed. Her little brother needed surgery aswell and was discharged after 2 weeks. Mattea was discharged after 3 months. She went back to playing all her sports after 6 months of the accident. A miracle. Thank you to all the staff for the care and love that was shown to my children and myself. Not only were they looked after but so was I. We love you all and speak about you always.

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Hospital “goes above and beyond” to help Billy

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Hospital “goes above and beyond” to help Billy

Our son Billy became ill when I was heavily pregnant with our second child. He was admitted to RCH and, after months of surgeries and tests, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.
He is cared for by the gastro team, lead by Dr Winita Hardikar and her amazing nurses and staff. We are so lucky and blessed to be under the care of the children’s, where he actually enjoys going into the hospital (even doesn’t mind the blood tests and injections)!
Everyone at the hospital goes above and beyond to ensure we are all ok, even through our darkest days. We will forever be indebted to you all.

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Open-heart surgery saves 8-week-old baby

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Open-heart surgery saves 8-week-old baby

I have so much to say about RCH and our amazing experience there in such a tough time in our life, all I can really say is THANK YOU, thank you for saving our little boys life and thank you for being amazing to all the stressed out parents.
Our son had open heart surgery at 8 weeks old, from the pre op appts, the surgeon, cleaning and support staff and most importantly to the amazing ICU nurses it was nothing but smooth and comforting. We are so lucky to have an amazing children’s hospital in Victoria and especially Australia!

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Eye surgeries save little Scarlett’s sight

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Eye surgeries save little Scarlett’s sight

At 8 months old Scarlett was diagnosed with Primary Congenital Glaucoma.
Within hours of a sent referal, the Opthalmology department contacted us and the next morning we made our first of many trips to RCH.

8 weeks later, Scarlett has now had 4 anesthetics with multiple operations on her eyes and although we are still within the battle to stabilise her eye pressure we appear to be winning.

She has the most amazing team looking after her, they have been nothing but kind and their expertise is incredible.

We cannot thank Dr Ruddle and his team enough for caring for our daughter and allowing her to keep her sight.

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A happier baby after open-heart surgery

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A happier baby after open-heart surgery

My son Lenny was diagnosed with a VSD (a whole in the heart) and Mitral Valve Disease 4 months ago when he was 10 months of age. We found out on a Monday at home in Tasmania and the following day we arrived in Melbourne at the hospital and were preparing for his surgery.
Lenny had open heart surgery on the 18th of December 2019 and we spent 3 weeks at the Children’s hospital over Christmas. The cardiac staff on Koala Ward were amazing in this very traumatic time in our lives.
Lenny is developing well since his surgery and has put on much needed weight. He is a completely different child, much happier. He isn’t out of the woods yet though as he needs another surgery very soon. What an incredible place the RCH is.

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