The wishing tree at the Queensland Children's Hospital in South Brisbane stands 24 hours a day, seven days a week all through the year.
But there's no shiny baubles or tinsel draped over its branches, no star on top or neatly wrapped presents underneath.
The 16-year-old was admitted to the Queensland Children's Hospital in August with a chest infection and a progressive deformity in her spine. She was struggling to breathe."The compression was impacting … so badly it was possible that her trachea would collapse," Grace's mother Sarah Hill said. So many experts were required during the operation, the theatre was crowded — four anaesthetists, three cardiac surgeons, three spinal surgeons, nurses and other specialist health workers all looking after Grace.
Milinh was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome — when the heart's left pumping chamber fails to develop properly in the womb and is much smaller than usual.Along with the doll's house and wireless ear buds she's asked Santa for in a letter, the Cairns prep student desperately wants to spend Christmas with relatives in north Queensland, including sister Dulcie.
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