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Advanced Life Support – Level 1 Course
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Queensland Health Spirometry Training Program – The Prince Charles Hospital
The Spirometry training program provides clinicians with the skills, knowledge and specific competencies required to perform spirometry to international standards and Queensland Health guidelines.
Advanced Life Support – Level 1 Course
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.Kallangur Satellite Health Centre
9 Stoker Way
KALLANGUR QLD 4503
Phone: (07) 3285 0000
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World-first research being conducted at TPCH offers hope for earlier diagnosis of occupational lung diseases including silicosis. 🫁
Australia's first dedicated PExA (Particles in Exhaled Air) machine was funded by The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation through its Tradie Health Institute initiative.
Professor Dan Chambers, Senior Thoracic Physician and Head of Research at the Queensland Lung Transplant Service said this technology represents a significant change in what is possible for workers at risk.
“We’re trialling a new technology that can detect tiny particles from the deepest part of the lungs using a breath sample, and this could allow us to identify disease much earlier, before serious damage occurs," he said.
“Positioning Queensland at the forefront of global efforts to detect occupational lung disease earlier, more safely and more precisely than ever before, our research has the potential to reshape how these conditions are identified, monitored, treated, and ultimately prevented.
“What excites us is not just better diagnosis, but the possibility of earlier intervention. If we can identify disease at a much earlier stage, we have a real opportunity to change outcomes."
Fabulous Dr and man
Lenore Bufi, pity it’s too late for your mum xx
To the Drs that saved my wife's life after she presented with 3rd degree full depth burns incurred during a colonoscopy at maryborough hospital thanks again ,but as you know it has been covered up with an" in house investigation " that states " a helper lent on her during the procedure trapping heat between his hand a blanket and her breast" of coarse we all no that is laughable and science free especially when they add " the helper doesn't recall doing so or experiencing any heat " .(google Bovie Burn ) But now as it is being noted there are multiple colonoscopy patients in Wide Bay hospitals that have suffered severe electrical burns during colonoscopies, WHY ARENT YOU DRS IN THE BURNS UNIT JUMPING UP AND DOWN DEMANDING A REVIEW OF CLINICAL PROCEDURES IN WIDE BAY COLORECTAL UNITS? Inaction can be seen as complicity . Thanks again Dr Brown Dr Betar and Dr Miller who consulted. Oh and Dr Brown you were right my wife did incur heart damage ,with recently noted " cold area necrosis" on the bottom of the heart .
TPCH Children's ward nurse Melissa loves to get her adrenalin pumping in her spare time, enjoying BMX riding, where she recently competed at the world championships held in Brisbane. 🚵🏁
After Melissa's husband, son and daughter all joined the sport, she decided to follow suit and make it a family affair and has now been competing for the last eight years.
"I just love the social aspect of it. I've had a fair few injuries so it's a bit gnarly but so fun," Melissa said.
"I actually really wanted to be a physio and started in nursing to then cross over into physio but at 18 I was apparently classified as a mature age student, and couldn't cross over, so continued with nursing.
"My teacher just happened to get me onto the paediatric ward for a day, and I just loved it and said if I'm doing nursing, this is what I've got to do. I've always thought if I can make a kid smile, then I've done my job today!"
👏#ShoutoutSaturday to Melissa and her double life as a BMX champ and paediatric nurse legend!
What a star ⭐️ 🙌🏻 ❤️
Freaking awesome
Well done 👏
Melissa you are amazing!!!
Heck yeah Melissa 🤘
Absolute legend on and off the track 🔥
Woohoooo!!! Go Missy!!!! Such an inspiration
That’s awesome 🤩
Love this. Xx
A most excellent human being 🤩
Definitely 💯% a champion. 🤗
What a champion!
Yeah Mel!!!
Yay that's our Mel! You go girl!!! 🥰🥰
You’re amazing Melissa 🩷🩷🩷
🙌🏆
Go TPCH!!
Yes Mel 💪🏼 you’re a legend!
Go Melissa Graham 💜💜💜
An example of another incredible human that I’ve met through this sport. Good on you!
Awesome 👏 go Mel 💗 we love you 🥰
Well done Melissa. Children needs happy faces like you. It is really rewarding working with children.
Mel you are amazing!!!! The BMX champion part is just an added bonus to the joy of working with you ❤️
"Nine years ago, I failed a medical so within two weeks I got a pacemaker and was defibbed a couple of times throughout the years. I slowly started to go downhill in five years with cardiomyopathy and started coming to Brisbane in 2022 for treatment. I worked up to transplant and qualified, they've got to match things like size, and need to match a certain blood type, and so I received my transplant recently. I spent four days in ICU. All the staff have been awesome; it's like a little family here. We own a transport company so hoping to get my truck licence back and get back to some travel, I really want to go to Tasmania."
💭 Monday Mantra, Wayne, TPCH Ward 1B Patient
TPCH is a wonderful hospital they save so many people. My son received the best medical treatment available in the modern world. Truly wonderful outcome he is back on his feet and doing very well.
Wow, you have done well
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and travels ahead 😊
Glad all went well with the transplant and I’m sure you will go to Tasmania. Thinking of you and the family.
All the best mate
Looking great Wayne, you have been in our thoughts, you and your family, back on the road in no time. It is wonderful that you received this gift. Take care
I hope you get a k on your feet soon and get that trip to Tassie .one of the nicestplzces in 5he world to visit. So much to see so peaceful and the food and people are the best.
Good to see you looking so well Wayne, speedy recovery so you can get back to doing what you love with your lovely family. ❤️
Good luck hope you get your wish
You will definitely get to Tassie Wayne.
All the best with your recovery and your plans to get to Tasmania.
Woohoo goo Wayne!
Yes they are awesome people
Best of luck Wayne
Good luck you will get to Tasmania! ❤️💜
Be patient, with yourself. All will be good 👍
All the best with your recovery.Hope you get to see how beautiful Tasmania is
RBWH is the best
With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
Thankyou Dr Fong and your amazing team, forever building a healthier qld. Particularly for regional communities.👏🏻
Good initiative Where we can find out location and timetable?
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Excellent work team!
Won’t go past proceed.
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
Praying for you I love you and miss my beautiful cousin stay strong I know you have it in you xxx I am sorry you are going through this ❤️
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
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Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.
/ MetroNorthHHS
World-first research being conducted at TPCH offers hope for earlier diagnosis of occupational lung diseases including silicosis. 🫁
Australia's first dedicated PExA (Particles in Exhaled Air) machine was funded by The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation through its Tradie Health Institute initiative.
Professor Dan Chambers, Senior Thoracic Physician and Head of Research at the Queensland Lung Transplant Service said this technology represents a significant change in what is possible for workers at risk.
“We’re trialling a new technology that can detect tiny particles from the deepest part of the lungs using a breath sample, and this could allow us to identify disease much earlier, before serious damage occurs," he said.
“Positioning Queensland at the forefront of global efforts to detect occupational lung disease earlier, more safely and more precisely than ever before, our research has the potential to reshape how these conditions are identified, monitored, treated, and ultimately prevented.
“What excites us is not just better diagnosis, but the possibility of earlier intervention. If we can identify disease at a much earlier stage, we have a real opportunity to change outcomes."
Fabulous Dr and man
Lenore Bufi, pity it’s too late for your mum xx
To the Drs that saved my wife's life after she presented with 3rd degree full depth burns incurred during a colonoscopy at maryborough hospital thanks again ,but as you know it has been covered up with an" in house investigation " that states " a helper lent on her during the procedure trapping heat between his hand a blanket and her breast" of coarse we all no that is laughable and science free especially when they add " the helper doesn't recall doing so or experiencing any heat " .(google Bovie Burn ) But now as it is being noted there are multiple colonoscopy patients in Wide Bay hospitals that have suffered severe electrical burns during colonoscopies, WHY ARENT YOU DRS IN THE BURNS UNIT JUMPING UP AND DOWN DEMANDING A REVIEW OF CLINICAL PROCEDURES IN WIDE BAY COLORECTAL UNITS? Inaction can be seen as complicity . Thanks again Dr Brown Dr Betar and Dr Miller who consulted. Oh and Dr Brown you were right my wife did incur heart damage ,with recently noted " cold area necrosis" on the bottom of the heart .
TPCH Children's ward nurse Melissa loves to get her adrenalin pumping in her spare time, enjoying BMX riding, where she recently competed at the world championships held in Brisbane. 🚵🏁
After Melissa's husband, son and daughter all joined the sport, she decided to follow suit and make it a family affair and has now been competing for the last eight years.
"I just love the social aspect of it. I've had a fair few injuries so it's a bit gnarly but so fun," Melissa said.
"I actually really wanted to be a physio and started in nursing to then cross over into physio but at 18 I was apparently classified as a mature age student, and couldn't cross over, so continued with nursing.
"My teacher just happened to get me onto the paediatric ward for a day, and I just loved it and said if I'm doing nursing, this is what I've got to do. I've always thought if I can make a kid smile, then I've done my job today!"
👏#ShoutoutSaturday to Melissa and her double life as a BMX champ and paediatric nurse legend!
What a star ⭐️ 🙌🏻 ❤️
Freaking awesome
Well done 👏
Melissa you are amazing!!!
Heck yeah Melissa 🤘
Absolute legend on and off the track 🔥
Woohoooo!!! Go Missy!!!! Such an inspiration
That’s awesome 🤩
Love this. Xx
A most excellent human being 🤩
Definitely 💯% a champion. 🤗
What a champion!
Yeah Mel!!!
Yay that's our Mel! You go girl!!! 🥰🥰
You’re amazing Melissa 🩷🩷🩷
🙌🏆
Go TPCH!!
Yes Mel 💪🏼 you’re a legend!
Go Melissa Graham 💜💜💜
An example of another incredible human that I’ve met through this sport. Good on you!
Awesome 👏 go Mel 💗 we love you 🥰
Well done Melissa. Children needs happy faces like you. It is really rewarding working with children.
Mel you are amazing!!!! The BMX champion part is just an added bonus to the joy of working with you ❤️
"Nine years ago, I failed a medical so within two weeks I got a pacemaker and was defibbed a couple of times throughout the years. I slowly started to go downhill in five years with cardiomyopathy and started coming to Brisbane in 2022 for treatment. I worked up to transplant and qualified, they've got to match things like size, and need to match a certain blood type, and so I received my transplant recently. I spent four days in ICU. All the staff have been awesome; it's like a little family here. We own a transport company so hoping to get my truck licence back and get back to some travel, I really want to go to Tasmania."
💭 Monday Mantra, Wayne, TPCH Ward 1B Patient
TPCH is a wonderful hospital they save so many people. My son received the best medical treatment available in the modern world. Truly wonderful outcome he is back on his feet and doing very well.
Wow, you have done well
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and travels ahead 😊
Glad all went well with the transplant and I’m sure you will go to Tasmania. Thinking of you and the family.
All the best mate
Looking great Wayne, you have been in our thoughts, you and your family, back on the road in no time. It is wonderful that you received this gift. Take care
I hope you get a k on your feet soon and get that trip to Tassie .one of the nicestplzces in 5he world to visit. So much to see so peaceful and the food and people are the best.
Good to see you looking so well Wayne, speedy recovery so you can get back to doing what you love with your lovely family. ❤️
Good luck hope you get your wish
You will definitely get to Tassie Wayne.
All the best with your recovery and your plans to get to Tasmania.
Woohoo goo Wayne!
Yes they are awesome people
Best of luck Wayne
Good luck you will get to Tasmania! ❤️💜
Be patient, with yourself. All will be good 👍
All the best with your recovery.Hope you get to see how beautiful Tasmania is
RBWH is the best
With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
Thankyou Dr Fong and your amazing team, forever building a healthier qld. Particularly for regional communities.👏🏻
Good initiative Where we can find out location and timetable?
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Excellent work team!
Won’t go past proceed.
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
Praying for you I love you and miss my beautiful cousin stay strong I know you have it in you xxx I am sorry you are going through this ❤️
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.Latest news
Events
/ MetroNorthHHS
World-first research being conducted at TPCH offers hope for earlier diagnosis of occupational lung diseases including silicosis. 🫁
Australia's first dedicated PExA (Particles in Exhaled Air) machine was funded by The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation through its Tradie Health Institute initiative.
Professor Dan Chambers, Senior Thoracic Physician and Head of Research at the Queensland Lung Transplant Service said this technology represents a significant change in what is possible for workers at risk.
“We’re trialling a new technology that can detect tiny particles from the deepest part of the lungs using a breath sample, and this could allow us to identify disease much earlier, before serious damage occurs," he said.
“Positioning Queensland at the forefront of global efforts to detect occupational lung disease earlier, more safely and more precisely than ever before, our research has the potential to reshape how these conditions are identified, monitored, treated, and ultimately prevented.
“What excites us is not just better diagnosis, but the possibility of earlier intervention. If we can identify disease at a much earlier stage, we have a real opportunity to change outcomes."
Fabulous Dr and man
Lenore Bufi, pity it’s too late for your mum xx
To the Drs that saved my wife's life after she presented with 3rd degree full depth burns incurred during a colonoscopy at maryborough hospital thanks again ,but as you know it has been covered up with an" in house investigation " that states " a helper lent on her during the procedure trapping heat between his hand a blanket and her breast" of coarse we all no that is laughable and science free especially when they add " the helper doesn't recall doing so or experiencing any heat " .(google Bovie Burn ) But now as it is being noted there are multiple colonoscopy patients in Wide Bay hospitals that have suffered severe electrical burns during colonoscopies, WHY ARENT YOU DRS IN THE BURNS UNIT JUMPING UP AND DOWN DEMANDING A REVIEW OF CLINICAL PROCEDURES IN WIDE BAY COLORECTAL UNITS? Inaction can be seen as complicity . Thanks again Dr Brown Dr Betar and Dr Miller who consulted. Oh and Dr Brown you were right my wife did incur heart damage ,with recently noted " cold area necrosis" on the bottom of the heart .
TPCH Children's ward nurse Melissa loves to get her adrenalin pumping in her spare time, enjoying BMX riding, where she recently competed at the world championships held in Brisbane. 🚵🏁
After Melissa's husband, son and daughter all joined the sport, she decided to follow suit and make it a family affair and has now been competing for the last eight years.
"I just love the social aspect of it. I've had a fair few injuries so it's a bit gnarly but so fun," Melissa said.
"I actually really wanted to be a physio and started in nursing to then cross over into physio but at 18 I was apparently classified as a mature age student, and couldn't cross over, so continued with nursing.
"My teacher just happened to get me onto the paediatric ward for a day, and I just loved it and said if I'm doing nursing, this is what I've got to do. I've always thought if I can make a kid smile, then I've done my job today!"
👏#ShoutoutSaturday to Melissa and her double life as a BMX champ and paediatric nurse legend!
What a star ⭐️ 🙌🏻 ❤️
Freaking awesome
Well done 👏
Melissa you are amazing!!!
Heck yeah Melissa 🤘
Absolute legend on and off the track 🔥
Woohoooo!!! Go Missy!!!! Such an inspiration
That’s awesome 🤩
Love this. Xx
A most excellent human being 🤩
Definitely 💯% a champion. 🤗
What a champion!
Yeah Mel!!!
Yay that's our Mel! You go girl!!! 🥰🥰
You’re amazing Melissa 🩷🩷🩷
🙌🏆
Go TPCH!!
Yes Mel 💪🏼 you’re a legend!
Go Melissa Graham 💜💜💜
An example of another incredible human that I’ve met through this sport. Good on you!
Awesome 👏 go Mel 💗 we love you 🥰
Well done Melissa. Children needs happy faces like you. It is really rewarding working with children.
Mel you are amazing!!!! The BMX champion part is just an added bonus to the joy of working with you ❤️
"Nine years ago, I failed a medical so within two weeks I got a pacemaker and was defibbed a couple of times throughout the years. I slowly started to go downhill in five years with cardiomyopathy and started coming to Brisbane in 2022 for treatment. I worked up to transplant and qualified, they've got to match things like size, and need to match a certain blood type, and so I received my transplant recently. I spent four days in ICU. All the staff have been awesome; it's like a little family here. We own a transport company so hoping to get my truck licence back and get back to some travel, I really want to go to Tasmania."
💭 Monday Mantra, Wayne, TPCH Ward 1B Patient
TPCH is a wonderful hospital they save so many people. My son received the best medical treatment available in the modern world. Truly wonderful outcome he is back on his feet and doing very well.
Wow, you have done well
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and travels ahead 😊
Glad all went well with the transplant and I’m sure you will go to Tasmania. Thinking of you and the family.
All the best mate
Looking great Wayne, you have been in our thoughts, you and your family, back on the road in no time. It is wonderful that you received this gift. Take care
I hope you get a k on your feet soon and get that trip to Tassie .one of the nicestplzces in 5he world to visit. So much to see so peaceful and the food and people are the best.
Good to see you looking so well Wayne, speedy recovery so you can get back to doing what you love with your lovely family. ❤️
Good luck hope you get your wish
You will definitely get to Tassie Wayne.
All the best with your recovery and your plans to get to Tasmania.
Woohoo goo Wayne!
Yes they are awesome people
Best of luck Wayne
Good luck you will get to Tasmania! ❤️💜
Be patient, with yourself. All will be good 👍
All the best with your recovery.Hope you get to see how beautiful Tasmania is
RBWH is the best
With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
Thankyou Dr Fong and your amazing team, forever building a healthier qld. Particularly for regional communities.👏🏻
Good initiative Where we can find out location and timetable?
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Excellent work team!
Won’t go past proceed.
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
Praying for you I love you and miss my beautiful cousin stay strong I know you have it in you xxx I am sorry you are going through this ❤️
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
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