{"id":5719,"date":"2025-09-02T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/uncategorized\/lukes-family-story"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:01:20","slug":"lukes-family-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/news\/lukes-family-story","title":{"rendered":"Luke&#8217;s family story of resilience and hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-stretch fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:89.44rem;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-stretch\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Luke&#8217;s family story of resilience and hope<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_5720\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5720\" class=\"wp-image-5720 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/luke-and-mark-afl-gf.jpg\" alt=\"Mark and Luke at the 2024 AFL Grand Final\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/luke-and-mark-afl-gf-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/luke-and-mark-afl-gf-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/luke-and-mark-afl-gf.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark and Luke at the 2024 AFL Grand Final<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>It\u2019s fair to say that life changed for Luke and his family in 2019 when his father, Mark Berridge, was involved in a bike accident that resulted in two crushed vertebrae and a compressed spinal cord.<\/h4>\n<p>Luke was undertaking his year 12 studies at high school at the time of the accident, with aspirations to become a sports physiotherapist.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today, and Luke has been a part of the physiotherapy team at RBWH since early 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Dad\u2019s accident wasn\u2019t my inspiration to become a physio, it opened my eyes to different kinds of physiotherapy and the difference it can make to improving the quality of life for patients,\u201d Luke said.<\/p>\n<p>Luke now works in the same ward and with some of the same physios who helped his dad recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel blessed to work alongside some of the people involved in Dad\u2019s rehab and who gave him hope for the future,\u201d Luke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience of seeing Dad recover and the impact it had on him and our family has helped me better understand the lived experience of my patients and their loved ones, to provide more holistic patient-centred care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke is keen to share that his dad is now doing well and living a happy, \u2018new-normal\u2019 life, including watching the Brisbane Lions win the 2024 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with Luke (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad has a good quality of life now and is doing well. He\u2019s a motivational speaker, has given a TEDX Talk about his experience and is a Patient Ambassador for the RBWH Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more about Mark\u2019s story, he participated in the RBWH Foundation\u2019s \u201940 Stories\u2019 series earlier this year, which you can access here.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to Father\u2019s Day, RBWH Physiotherapist, Luke Berridge, shares his dad\u2019s story of resilience and hope following a life-altering accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":5721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}