1. A young cancer survivor is recovering after losing 80 per cent of her skin to a heartbreaking infection.
Avery Beal on the Sunshine Coast has been fighting disease almost her entire life.
In August 2014, when she was 11 months old, Avery was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, a “shockingly common form of blood cancer, and a diagnosis that turned our lives upside down,” her father, David Beal wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Now, after years of treatment, the little one is cancer-free but she’s been admitted to hospital with a painful skin condition, which David believes is Scalded Skin Syndrome, as well as a bout of chickenpox.
“She is wrapped from the neck down so we can only see her face and one patch on her hip a little bigger than a 50 cent coin other than that she is covered in burns dressings,” David posted to Facebook on Saturday.
She had lost 80 per cent of her skin, was breathing through a ventilator, and in constant pain, David added.
