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Ambulance, what's the emergency?

Quickly...

OK...

The Gold Coast.

Where the lights burn bright and the sunshine never ends.

While many Aussies call it home...

..every year 12 million tourists come to play

on this stretch of golden coastline.

He was surfing when he got bitten on both legs by a shark.

I don't think I'm going in the sea again!

But the good times...

We need some medical staff. ..can often turn ugly.

Pelvic binder on him, OK?

And when they do...

It may be that he's had a heart attack.

These are the people you want on your side.

This is Princess Charlotte. We've got her a room with a view.

Good.

If this guy doesn't die

there's a good chance he's going to end up with a horrible brain injury.

Whether you're just visiting or you live here.

This dude seriously got attacked by buffalo.

She is biting me.

Are we getting any sort of blood pressure out of this?

He could still lose this leg.

These are the real stories...

Are you OK? Yep.

..of the cutting-edge medical teams....

Do not move your head.

We need to go in and get that clot out straightaway.

Good work, guys. ..who pick you up...

OK, get moving.

You may get some chest pain, we are inflating the balloon now.

..patch you up...

The fairy dust, it's very magical and it fixes all sorts of things.

..and put you back in paradise.

Where else would you rather be?

Tonight on Gold Coast medical...

I feel like it's a time-bomb in my head every day.

Just waiting.

Doctors are challenged with a major problem

while trying to save Tarra's life.

It doesn't want to open.

Lights up, please.

So, this is the bravest little boy ever with his emu arm.

Tommy's break calls for magical medicine.

How do you call for dolphins?

(MAKES DOLPHIN WHISTLE)

A miracle baby gets paparazzied.

Hello, darling. Hello gorgeous.

And the full moon turns up a killer avocado.

Cut left index finger while cutting avocado.

Spurting out blood.

I didn't even want the bloody avocado.

♪ I take a picture of you

♪ Taking a picture of me

♪ I take a picture of you

♪ Taking a picture of me... ♪

Emergency doctor Christa Bell has been caring and repairing

for Gold Coast locals for nearly 20 years.

I first came to Gold Coast Hospital, as it was in Southport, in 1996.

So I came out from the UK.

I've known a lot of people for a long time.

Some days you can come to work

and you know that if you're feeling a bit rubbish

you'll get at least five hugs in the day.

You'll feel better by the end of the day

and that's just from your colleagues, you know.

People do really look after each other.

And it is nice walking 'round the place and seeing people you know,

and it's like, "Hi!"

I think it's a friendly hospital.

Krista has a second specialty in paediatrics.

And being a self-confessed big kid makes her the perfect doctor

to look after the hospital's youngest patients.

Go and cheer mummy up and I'll come for a cuddle, soon.

Her partner in crime is senior nurse and mum of two Simone Stephens.

They really are a dynamic duo.

I love caring for people.

And you can ask any of my friends,

it doesn't stop when I walk out the door.

Whether it's people coming to stay at my house

or looking after the kids, having sleepovers.

I'm always caring for people.

How long have we worked together, Christa?

Forever, for a long time.

I know, remember the first time I met you,

I looked after Mia when she scalded?

My daughter came in, that was the first time she burnt herself.

She was only six months old.

Six months old. And now she's 12?

She's nearly 13.

Over 12 years we've worked together

and we've had some interesting shifts here and at the old place.

But what do we share a love of? Sparkles.

Sparkles and what we do before anything?

We need to put our lip gloss on.

But for Christa Bell and Simone, it's soon back to business.

Because little Tommy has arrived with a break in his arm...

Bravest little boy ever with his emu arm.

..you don't see everyday.

Paramedics Sophie and Adele

are responding to a 000 call from a home in a Gold Coast suburb.

So we have an 88-year-old male, conscious, breathing,.

These two often work together

and typically on their shifts they don't get much time to relax.

I think any job there's good days bad days, pros, cons.

You never know what your next job's going to be.

So there's an element of sort of excitement there

and it keeps you on your toes.

Um, he has history of emphysema.

Caller also states that he can hear gurgling in his chest.

I started off doing biomedical science first

and then transferred straight out of school.

So, I didn't come straight into paramedicine.

Knock-knock.

First stop tonight is Frank and Betty.

Who were having a quiet night watching the telly

when Frank got all breathless.

You're having a little difficulty with breathing today?

Yeah.

It's getting worse now.

It's been bad for a couple of hours.

Any other medical conditions?

Old age.

Nice, deep breaths for me.

So your heart rate's a little bit faster.

(UNINTELLIGBLE)

Yeah, because of your breathing, obviously,

and your blood pressure's a little bit up

but you don't have any temperature or anything

so this might be just the start of an infection coming up

and with the weather going on, you know,

with your emphysema, it plays around a bit.

I try and laugh, if you don't laugh, you cry.

Well, we'll take you to Gold Coast Hospital.

I'm sure it should be fine, OK?

We will just unhook you from all of this.

And my old girl will be able to have a good night's sleep tonight.

His wife's been telling him for a while

that he needs to go see the doctor.

So, but some men can be a bit stubborn, so...

Now it's come down to this.

You are going to have to reach up for a kiss.

(BETTY:) I will see you tomorrow.

Don't even come in if you don't have to.

Good night, darling.

As Frank and Betty say their goodbyes,

the girls are already hearing their next call.

Cut left index finger while cutting avocado, says spurting out blood.

Code one.

And all is not as it seems.

Well, that really tricky-looking aneurysm, isn't it?

Every day is a challenge for doctors Hal Rice and Laetitia de Villiers.

And today is no exception.

As they attempt to repair a swollen blood vessel

known as an aneurysm in a young woman's brain.

It's getting to that stage

where it's becoming very high risk for rupture.

They couldn't do it without a little help from their colleague Michael.

Hal, Laetitia.

Hey, how are you?

Michael is our head radiographer

and he's been at the Gold Coast Hospital

for as long as I can remember and way before then.

And his main job is to keep everybody fed.

(HAL:) Oh, my God. Oh, yum.

You have been working up late all night again.

He always brings in something great

that is baked or some interesting food that he has discovered.

Go on, crack it open. It's a caramel.

Look at that! That's going to keep us going all day.

When he's not baking, Michael runs the high-tech imaging machinery

that allows Hal and Laetitia to see inside their patient's brains.

Alright, let's get going. Back to reality.

Hey, how are you feeling?

Waiting for surgery is 22-year-old Tarra whose problems began

when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour seven years ago.

Being 16, I had no idea how to take it and then it was like a week

later and I was in surgery because they thought it might be malignant.

So they raced me into surgery and it was...

it was an insane process.

What time is mum and dad coming?

Um, seven.

While she went through the terrifying brain surgery,

Tarra's high school sweetheart, Justin, stayed by her side.

Yeah, Justin is amazing.

You know, at 16 you don't think

that a guy like that's going to stick around.

But he'd just sit with me even if I was asleep,

I'd wake up and he was there.

It was the best feeling

so I know that this time it's gonna be just the same.

So, what time are you going in?

Soonish.

Definitely brought us closer, if anything, like being 15 years old,

you know, you sort of like, what's going on, why is this happening?

And spending so much time with Tarra in hospital

made me realise how much I love her and we eventually got married

and bought a house, got a dog.

It's perfect.

But threatening to end the newlyweds' domestic bliss

is a giant aneurysm that has formed in Tarra's brain

where the tumour was cut away seven years ago.

I feel like it's a time-bomb, you know, in my head every day.

Just waiting.

It's a busy night for paramedics Adele and Sophie.

They've already offloaded one patient

at the Gold Coast University Hospital

and are now heading back to the city streets

under the light of a full moon.

No-one can prove it but every time it feels like

it's always busy on a full moon.

More mental health

and everyone seems to get out and drink and I don't know why.

It's a bit crazy.

And the girls' next job has a touch of the full-moon madness about it.

We have a 49-year-old female, cut finger with knife.

"Cut left index finger while cutting avocado."

Says "spurting out."

"Bleeding control has been applied but cut finger accidentally."

So, um...

Because it's come as a serious haemorrhage, it is a Code 1.

Code one means it's a time-critical case

where the patient is in imminent danger.

What's your name, dear?

But Sophie and Adele are not so sure.

There's the crime scene over there.

Yeah... Have a seat.

We got called Code 1, which is lights and sirens

'cause it's serious haemorrhage, blood squirting everywhere.

Obviously that's their perception,

our perception of blood loss is quite more severe.

Yeah, it looks like

you've just nicked a little vain there, on the side. So...

Yeah...

What we're going to do, we'll wrap it up...

It's usually on the roof, on the walls, all over the ground.

Drenched in it.

Drenched in blood.

But a lot of the public members,

their idea of blood squirting out and blood loss

is really quite minor.

Yeah, you have nicked there.

I don't think I have nicked it, I think I've smashed it.

It's slowed down.

It definitely needs some stitches, OK?

Are you alright with the pain there?

I have had enough to drink that it's...

That's probably why you're bleeding.

Caroline enjoyed a glass or two of red

while making her salad but maybe the avocado wasn't such a good idea.

So I'm on the bed? Yeah.

Now she's relying on designated driver Sophie

to get her to the hospital for a couple of stitches.

I didn't even want the bloody avocado.

(RADIO CHATTER)

Are you sure you don't want pain relief

because we're happy to give it to you.

I think she was a little bit embarrassed

because it was a little nick

that she probably could've taken care of herself

and come to hospital on her own terms

but because she had alcohol

she can't really drive herself to hospital.

I'm just going to park you over here.

She sort of want of the ambulance

service to come and help in her time of need.

She hasn't lost her finger tonight so that is a good thing.

So, note to self, maybe drink alcohol

after preparing dinner with a sharp knife and not during or before.

So this is the bravest little boy ever with his emu arm.

Doesn't make an emu noise, your arm?

We should draw some eyes on his hand.

Six-year-old Tommy has turned up with a very unusual break.

He was leaping between benches in the school playground

when he fell heavily on his right arm.

I tripped, my foot got stuck and I smashed my arm.

Oh, dear. Did you cry?

Yes. Yeah.

But you're not crying now which means you must be pretty brave.

I was crying for a long time,

it took a long time to get to the hospital.

Did it?

As a mum of two, senior nurse Simone Stephens

can't help getting involved in looking after little Tommy.

I think, you and I, our favourite is the children, isn't it?

Yes. Kids is our passion.

Yeah. Absolutely.

Making it all lovely and calm and a nice experience

for these little kids who, it's just rubbish, isn't it?

Breaking your arm but that kid's pretty happy, isn't he?

You've been sucking on that green whistle. Has that been helping?

Yep.

We love Penthrane, don't we?

The green whistle contains a strong painkiller that's safe for children.

Look, he's out of it.

He is just puffing on that.

He's having a good time on the green whistle.

I think I want some.

If you go near him, you'll get a bit.

Dr Christa examines Tommy while his mum, Jackie, watches.

Don't freak out, Mum.

Can you straighten your fingers?

It's all about their pain,

you don't want them to be in any pain.

So, Mum, just a temporary sling so it's all supported.

It'll mean it's so much better when we move him around for his x-ray.

I might confiscate is now, I don't think you need any more of that.

Mum is going to have that. He liked that.

Hello, Simone's phone, Christa speaking.

A bad time to give up smoking.

(TOMMY:) Where's the whistle?

It's hiding. Alright, we will have an x-ray.

I want the whistle.

Tommy gets the empty painkiller whistle to keep him happy

while he's taken for an x-ray to see exactly what's broken in that arm.

Can you stay nice and still like a statue?

(TOMMY:) Ow!

Good boy.

For Tommy's mum and grandma,

the x-ray images confirmed their worst fears.

It's real now.

So what time are you going in?

Soonish.

22-year-old Tarra has a giant aneurysm growing in her brain.

I feel like it's a time-bomb, you know, in my head every day.

Just waiting.

If the aneurysm bursts, Tarra would need to within minutes.

There is no way of knowing,

if it's on the brink of doing anything or not.

Left untreated, that's highly likely.

(LAETITIA:) By aneurysm standards, it's a big aneurysm.

It's about 14mm which is 1.5cm

So, anything over 7mm is considered big.

And the bigger they get,

the higher their chance of rupturing

and causing a fatal brain haemorrhage.

Thankfully, you know, in a lot of these cases

when we get the patient in time, we're able to make a big difference

to their lives and certainly it's still a very young person,

they've got many years of life ahead of them.

So, our responsibility is to get them through

that threatening episode,

get them recovered and get them back on to their life.

But the surgery itself may also cause a brain haemorrhage.

It is scary but it's important for her to know that

I am there and I am always going to support her no matter what.

So...

Love you.

Yeah, I'm feeling very nervous about the surgery.

Because I know what I went through the first time,

I think it's harder going into this one

and knowing what's going to be coming.

So...

yeah.

Tarra and Justin's hopes for a future together

are relying on Hal and Laetitia's ability

to safely repair the giant aneurysm.

♪ You got me lifted feeling so gifted

♪ Sugar how you get so fly?

♪ Sugar how you get so fly?

♪ Sugar how you get so fly?

♪ Sugar, sugar... ♪

Let's go and check on little Tommy. How's that x-ray?

Clinical nurse consultant Simone Stephens and Dr Christa Bell

are looking after six-year-old Tommy who's really done a job on his arm.

Oh, dear. Broken real good.

Tommy took a tumble in the school playground

and managed to break both of the bones in his forearm.

D'you reckon we'll be able to do that here?

It's being done here.

Let me ring also.

The bones in the arm will have to be pulled straight by hand

while little Tommy is under sedation to numb the pain.

Did you want me to get the ketamine and everything ready?

No, I've got the ketamine.

Do you want me to check in with you? So 100mg in 10ml.

With any medication with children

you just can't afford to make a mistake.

I mean, you'd almost triple check it.

Ketamine and just draw up the first 1ml.

1ml and yep that will go into 10. Thank you.

Being under the influence of ketamine

can be a bit frightening to a six-year-old.

So Tommy and mum Jackie get some special attention.

You've got to de-escalate the fear, remove the pain,

remove the anxiety from the parents.

And, for the child,

the experience you want it to be nonthreatening, not frightening.

So, that's where we use our procedural sedation room.

Our visualisation, a little bit of magic medicine.

But Christa knows sometimes the mums also need a little bit of magic

to help get them through.

Sometimes you have just got to say "They know what they're doing

"and it looks bad to me but they know what they are doing."

And... you just have to trust.

I'm just going to see Elise and take her through.

OK, thanks.

Midwife Tionie is truly passionate about helping women

go through pregnancy and childbirth.

It's a privilege and an honour to be with women

when they're having their babies

and it really is all that it's cracked up to be.

Working in the maternal-fetal medicine department

means Tionie gets involved in moments of great happiness

but also of great tragedy.

It's a department that exists specifically for women

that have high-risk pregnancies.

We see anything from women

that have babies where we're concerned about their growth

to more serious cases where there are serious diagnoses

of babies that have chromosomal abnormalities or foetal anomalies,

structural anomalies.

Some these babies won't survive.

There are many pregnancies that don't end the way that we as parents

want them to end.

Losing a baby was a life-changing experience

for young couple Shelley and Jai.

We had a baby last year the in August.

But tragically he only lived for one day.

Baby Leo had a heart defect that was discovered

just hours before he was delivered by emergency caesarean.

After we got home, we were really lucky

to have captured quite a few photos.

In the hospital.

So I just put this book together.

I started with the photos in order from when he was alive.

And then some of the photos were taken

from a foundation called Heartfelt.

And they take professional photos for you

in a time where your baby is sick or passed away.

And then we've got a little bit on the day that we said goodbye to him.

There's photos in here of the candle,

Leo's candle and everyone who attended

lit a small candle and placed it

next to the bigger candle.

We also shared planting a garden for him.

I couldn't bear not to have memories of him

and walk past him in the hallway.

You know, see his photo on the wall or...

..wake up to seeing him in his little urn to our bed.

Yeah... I...

love his memory, so I love keeping it alive.

Tionie has been keeping a close eye on Shelley

and her new baby throughout this pregnancy.

(TIONIE:) How are you? How you going?

Any pregnancy after a loss is a difficult pregnancy.

And I don't think that it matters

how many pregnancies that woman has

because there's always that worrying, the concern in their mind

that perhaps not everything is OK.

Relax, make the most of it.

(SHELLEY:) We got recommended to have a scan

at 24 weeks because that's the best time.

For you to see the development of the heart

and that is the part that they were most worried about

re-occurring with what happened with Leo.

Tionie is doing everything she can to create happy birth memories

for Shelley and Jai.

But until their new baby is safely delivered, there are no guarantees.

High school sweethearts Justin and Tarra have just been married.

But a large aneurysm in Tarra's brain threatens their happiness.

So, an aneurysm is a weakness in the blood vessel wall

and basically it's like a ballooning out

on one side of the blood vessel wall

and the wall gets thinner and thinner,

the larger the aneurysm gets.

If the thin wall of the swollen vein bursts,

Tarra would probably die in minutes.

I feel like it's a time bomb,

you know, in my head every day, just waiting.

X-rays on.

Neuro interventional radiologists Hal and the Laetitia

will try and cut off the blood flow to this grape-like bulge.

Nasty.

Yeah, it's a really ugly looking aneurysm.

It looks like it's got a bit bigger.

The aneurysm has grown in size, it's now 15mm.

It was about 13 previously.

So, it is certainly on the move.

The first stage of the repair will be to fill the vein

with platinum wire coils

fed in through opened artery in Tarra's groin.

So what I'm doing,

I'm just pushing the coil into the micro catheter now.

And then Laetitia's gonna position the coil within the aneurysm.

The idea is the coil will clog up the aneurysm.

Obviously you've got to be very gentle

when you are working in the arteries in the brain.

They are very delicate, you can easily tell them.

Patients that we treat have serious

life-threatening conditions and a tiny wrong move can be fatal.

So it is very intense.

At the moment we are just trying to navigate the wire into the aneurysm.

Just going around all of these twisty corners.

A ruptured aneurysm wall would cause a tragic death.

It's kind of hard to see where the neck of her aneurysm is.

Laetitia is determined to not let this happen.

Driven not only by profession but also a deeply personal secret.

♪ I don't know what to do

♪ I just can't live without you

♪ I don't know what to do

♪ I just can't live without you... ♪

Six-year-old Tommy needs the bones in his arm pulled straight.

So to numb the pain for the orthopaedics to do their stuff,

he's been given the heavy painkiller ketamine,

which will give him an out-of-body experience.

♪ And watching the ships

♪ That go sailing... ♪

(WHISPERS) Mum's a good singer!

As little Tommy drifts off, Christa makes sure he's not getting spooked.

How do you call for dolphins?

Have you got a magic call that you can do?

(DOLPHIN CALL)

(MAKES DOLPHIN CALLS)

That's a funny noise they make, isn't it?

Dolphins come and then are you gonna ride on the back of the dolphin?

(TOMMY:) Yeah...

Awesome! That's so cool.

And you're going to go up over huge big waves.

And the water splashing all over your face.

Yeah.

Splashing water.

Yeah.

That's just 10mg.

(SIMONE:) That'll be the ketamine taking effect.

The eyes were open but it's a funny feeling for him.

It can be quite distressing for parents to watch

because it's like, "Hang on, that's not my child."

See how his eyes are starting to go?

He's is probably hallucinating right now.

Ketamine is an interesting drug.

It's like they go into this, almost like a night terror,

so their eyes are open.

Their body will feel all sort of different.

We try and make it nice and quiet in there, we dim the lights,

do all that sort of stuff just because they can get overstimulated.

It disturbs parents sometimes 'cause their eyes looking around

and you think they're awake

but he will have no recollection of what we are about to do.

He is a brave little thing.

With Tommy now under, orthopaedics can pull the broken bones straight.

That's what I said, eyes are open but no-one's home.

(ORTHOPEDIST:) Try and keep it at a 90.

It seems scary, you're right.

I'm fine.

Sure?

You want to sit down?

So, he may flinch a little bit but he won't, he won't be aware of it.

OK.

(TENSE MUSIC)

Are you sure he's not feeling this?

Are you OK there? Can you breathe?

I won't keep you there for too long.

I'm just going to have a feel of your tummy, is that all right?

Midwife Tionie is checking on Shelley's fully formed baby girl.

Who she's already named Ayla.

Most importantly, Ayla has a strong heartbeat.

..which is beautiful.

Really happy with baby's heart rate.

It's very normal and it's exactly what it should be.

All right?

It's great news for Shelley and her husband, Jai,

who lost their first baby boy Leo

to a heart defect just a day after he was born.

In Ayla's bedroom, there is a framed picture

that has Leo's hand and footprints on the wall.

As a memory of her big brother.

This is Leo's hands and feet.

So, yeah, this was something special to be in her room. Big brother.

Looking over her.

A pregnancy after loss is called a rainbow pregnancy.

A rainbow baby.

So there's a little rainbow on her belly. Yeah.

Shelley's rainbow baby should help heal some of the emotional scars

from when she lost baby Leo.

Jai did it. And we painted it. Yeah.

(TIONIE:) She is still having a baby, it is still a birth for her

and we've got to do what we can

to create that really special time for her.

It's not just about Shelley, it's also about the dad, too.

I can't imagine how difficult it was for you last time

having gone through an emergency caesarean,

especially when you weren't there, Shelley was put to sleep.

You didn't know what was going on.

Didn't know if Shelley was OK, didn't know if your baby was OK.

I'm not sure if it was just in the rush

but I was told I was going to be able to be present

so, I got kitted up in all of the equipment.

Yep, ready to go into theatre.

Next minute I'm not allowed to be in there

so, I want to be present this time.

You are giving me goosebumps, yeah.

Sometimes when we're going throughout this next birth

and having this next baby, memories can come up from last time.

You could start if you flashbacks or you start to feel emotional

because of everything that happened last time.

I want you to know that that's normal and that's OK.

In four days' time,

Shelley and Jai's baby girl will be delivered by caesarean.

It's an exciting but nervous wait.

Grief certainly affects their next pregnancy

where there is always that

small part inside them where they're just so scared that perhaps

this is another pregnancy and another baby that might not make it.

It's kind of hard to see were the neck of her aneurysm is.

Hal and Laetitia are in the middle of a delicate operation

to fix an aneurysm in a young woman's brain.

A condition that Laetitia has personal experience with.

My youngest brother died of a brain haemorrhage.

He was 16.

I was in my fourth year of medical school.

Losing her brother to a brain haemorrhage

inspired this brave doctor to help others in danger

of suffering a similar fate.

It's really difficult but at the same time

you can really empathise and you know, it's terrible for any family.

You can see the coil, we have specifically chosen

this size and shape because of Tarra's aneurysm

and that is why those measurements earlier were so critical.

You can see as Laetitia's forming the coil,

you're seeing how it's sitting beautifully

within the outer confines of the aneurysm.

And this being the 12mm coil will be the largest one

that we use in this aneurysm.

In the aneurysm, you start with a really big-sized coil

which has a preformed shape

which exactly fits to the size of the aneurysm.

And as you can see there, the flow within the aneurysm

has been dramatically reduced just with one coil.

A total of five coils are carefully fed in from Tarra's groin,

up through her heart and into her brain.

Pack the aneurysm fuller and fuller with coils

until there's no blood going into it anymore so it can't burst.

And then over time the lining of the artery

will actually grow over the base of that aneurysm

and heal it off completely.

I don't think we should try and put anything more in.

No. Absolutely brilliant.

Part one done.

Yes.

That's looking good.

We've done the hard work with the coiling of the aneurysm,

we've got that well secured so this next step now is very important.

This is the reconstruction of the artery with the stent.

It's a metal mesh tube and it changes the direction of the flow.

I'm just twisting the wire now to get us past the aneurysm

which is the next difficult part.

In most aneurysms the blood flow is pumping straight into the aneurysm.

It is a preference to the artery,

so you have this really high pressure blood

pumping into the aneurysm all the time.

And if you put a stent across the bottom of the aneurysm

and reinforce the artery wall,

you're changing the direction of the flow of the blood

and it's going to the brain where it should be going.

This is the tricky part of the procedure

because you want to place the stent in the exact right position.

You don't want to fall back

or be too far into the brain than you want it to be.

In an ideal world, the stent is fed in compressed

and worked into position and then opened.

It's a tense time for Hal and Laetitia

because this stent is not responding.

That's really not wanting to open.

Clearly the stent is not behaving itself as we want.

And we have no other option but to remove it.

Lights up, please.

(SIGHS)

Six-year-old Tommy is having the bones in his broken arm

pulled straight.

Are you sure he's not feeling this?

It hard for mum, Jackie, to watch

but a strong painkiller means Tommy's not feeling a thing.

(BONE CRACKS)

(ORTHOPEDIST:) Crack, you feel that?

He can't feel it? He can't, darling.

It's like an anaesthetic but also a very, very strong pain relief.

(HUSHED, UNINTELLIGBLE)

Three men...

I know, it's to get that bone right in place.

Now if this was hurting him, he'd be jumping off the bed.

Poor little baby. I know.

The team have been working as gently as they can

but getting the job done is going to require a bit of tough love.

So, we will keep pulling, your job is to keep it at 90.

(BONES CRACK)

(MAN:) Oh, that felt good!

Finally, the bones snap into place.

It's not too floppy, is it?

No? Pretty happy with that. I reckon we could just start moulding.

Go with that?

He's doing really well.

Christa's happy.

The doctor is happy, everybody is happy. OK?

(LAUGHS) Except me.

Mum was getting quite upset in there so, poor Jackie.

It's a scary thing to watch so, it's nice to be able to feel like

you make a difference sometimes.

Tommy gets a pretty impressive plaster cast

all the way from his wrist to his upper arm

and a kiss from a very relieved mum.

♪ Yes, you're lovely

♪ With your smile so warm...

While Mum sings, Christa applies some magic sparkle.

This is the magic sparkle that he found

on his adventure to the bottom of the ocean.

With the dolphins.

A final x-ray to check the position of the bones

brings a big smile to Jackie's face.

Look at that.

Oh, what an amazing, it looks just right, doesn't it?

You can't even see where it is broken.

It's that little bit there. And then through.

And matching across.

They've done a brilliant job. They've lined it up so well.

Even Terry the plasterer is delighted with the team's result.

That's really nice, really happy.

Yeah, look at that.

Thank you.

Wow, that is so awesome.

How good is that? Yeah!

Great result!

Shelley and Jai's baby girl

is about to be delivered by caesarean section.

Baby number two is extra special to this young couple.

Who lost their first baby,

a boy named Leo, to a heart defect when he was just one day old.

One, two, three. Beautiful.

I think you are going to go straight in.

Where do I have to wait?

Just hang here with me for a second.

Alright, Jane, where shall we get Jai...?

You are going to come straight in? Excellent.

Shelley's pregnancy has been textbook perfect.

But she can't relax just yet.

(TIONIE:) The last time that they left the hospital,

they left empty-handed.

It really isn't until that baby is placed in your arms crying

that they then can take a bit of a breath and go, "It's gonna be OK."

It's nice we're both here this time.

Both in the room.

I'm want to look over but I don't.

Don't.

Alright are we ready to meet this little baby?

Beautiful.

Alright.

Baby Leo's heart defect was only picked up

around the time of his emergency caesarean birth.

Shelley and Jai are fearful

there'll be another devastating problem this time.

All that matters is that we've got to do what we can

to get them through.

And to give them their baby at the end of that pregnancy.

Screaming and crying like all babies should be.

(WOMAN:) Do we want to do a beautiful headshot?

She's crying!

If your partner wants to step...

Did you want to have a look at the baby?

The baby's going to come around to meet Mum and Dad.

(BABY CRIES)

(CHATTER)

Congratulations!

Hey! Oh, darling.

Congratulations.

She's beautiful, isn't she?

I'm so happy.

Yeah, I know. I know.

(BABY CRIES)

Neonatologist Pita Birch

is at the ready to check all of baby Ayla's vital signs.

Shelley and Jai's journey won't end until Ayla is cleared

of the new-born heart defect that claimed their first baby.

(MACHINES BEEP)

Doctors Hal Rice and Laetitia de Villiers

are trying to open a mesh tube called a stent

inside an artery in a young woman's head.

(HAL:) This is the second time now on the second stent.

Almost begging the stent to open for you.

The veins they have accessed the artery through are so twisted

that the mechanism on their wire tool just can't get the stent open.

It's not coming. We will try another device.

See how small and fragile the device is.

You can see the back end of the stent is open

but the end of the stent here that's what was concerning us,

was not opening.

OK, let's go again.

The team have already filled an aneurysm in 22-year-old Tarra's head

with platinum wire to cut off the blood flow.

The job of the stent is to make sure the nearby artery stays open.

It's opening behind the aneurysm reasonably well.

It's just as we get to the top here, getting the same scenario.

If the swollen blood vessels were ruptured by the wire tools,

Tarra could die from a brain haemorrhage.

It doesn't want to open.

(SIGHS)

It does not want to open.

Three hours into the procedure, Hal decides the risk is just too great.

OK, let's call it.

The key thing really is to know when to stop.

The blood vessels in the patient are very fragile so I think

three attempts at the stent at this point is worth stopping.

Let her blood vessel relax and recover.

It's frustrating.

It's something that does happen from time to time.

I must admit, it hasn't happened

for the last couple of years and occasionally the anatomy defeats us.

The next step for Tarra is to recover

from today's long procedure with a bit of TLC from hubby, Justin.

Here's Tarra. Hey, Tarra, how are you going?

Feeling alright?

Much better, thank you. Good, good.

We got all the aneurysm blocked off nicely with the coils.

We wanted to put the stent in, as you know,

nut we couldn't get it to sit in nicely today.

So, certainly we have got a few plans to have another attempt

whenever she is ready and comfortable for that and because

we've actually fixed the aneurysm already,

it will take the pressure off that side of the procedure

and we can focus a lot more

on deploying the stent effectively for her.

It's not dangerous to leave things as they are,

all the serious stuff's over.

OK. That's good.

OK, see you guys. Bye.

Have a good night.

(JUSTIN:) Today was pretty full-on, I was really nervous.

But now that it's coming to an end I know she's safe, she's well.

I am pretty happy.

It's a mixed result for Tarra.

She'll have to go through another surgery.

But for these happy newlyweds, it's great to know she's out of danger.

While I was bored in the cafe

I decided that I'd go for a bit of a wander around the gift shops.

Found little Bailey.

So, I knew it'd make her smile, so it makes me happy.

Just to see her smile.

Shelley and Jai's little baby, Ayla,

has just come into the world but the journey to here is still not over...

Alright.

..until their little girl is cleared of a new-born heart defect

that claimed their first baby.

(MACHINE BEEPS)

(PITA:) She looks absolutely fine.

Congratulations.

With a clean bill of health,

Shelley, Jai and Ayla can finally relax and enjoy being a family.

(AYLA CRIES)

(CHATTER)

She's so pretty, isn't she?

(AYLA CRIES)

(JAI:) Hearing her cry for the first time,

seeing her for the first time and holding her hand.

Yeah. It's all pretty special.

Really happy.

Yep.

(TIONIE:) I don't know, it's been emotional.

It's really nice.

Emotional for me

because of the journey that I've been on with the parents.

I know how much they're just waiting to hear the cry after everything

they have been through and I always get a bit teary and emotional.

It's just beautiful. I loved it.

Yeah, it's lovely. Yeah.

Aw...

I'm a shocker when it comes to this.

I don't think there's ever been one I haven't cried at.

Yeah.

I can't help it.

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