What’s trending on social media this week
IT IS unimaginable. And yet it could happen to anyone. This week I spoke to the mum of a little boy in hospital after a tragic accident with a boiled kettle that left him with burns to 12% of his little body and on-going yearly surgery.
Hunter has been at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital now for nearly six weeks.
It has been a long journey for the 17-month-old and his family, but the brave little boy is getting better.
The majority of his burns are starting to heal and he is eating and drinking and off all painkillers.
But he will now need on-going yearly surgery on his right leg, the limb most affected.
He has a scar running from his knee down and mum Kerrie said he will need skin release surgery or a skin graft on his right leg every year up until he stops growing, at the age of about 18.
He will also need physio to help him learn to walk again. He took his first steps three days before the accident.
The family of six were on the trip of a lifetime: travelling from their hometown in Rockhampton down the coast to Tasmania.
They made it as far as the Sunshine Coast. They’ll now return to Rockhampton when Hunter is discharged.