{"id":41898,"date":"2015-02-11T22:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41898"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:41:14","slug":"ontario-father-undergoes-surgery-to-save-one-of-his-3-year-old-twin-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/ontario-father-undergoes-surgery-to-save-one-of-his-3-year-old-twin-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario father undergoes surgery to save one of his 3 year old twin daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42005\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-johanne-wagner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42005\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-johanne-wagner.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Wagner and wife Johanne with daughters Phuoc and Binh (Facebook photo)\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-johanne-wagner.jpg 650w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-johanne-wagner-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Wagner and wife Johanne with daughters Phuoc and Binh (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Doctors are expected to issue an update today on a Kingston, Ont., father&#8217;s effort to save one of his ailing twin daughters by giving part of his liver.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Wagner&#8217;s three-year-old twins &#8212; Phuoc and Binh &#8212; have Alagille syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the liver, heart and other organs.<\/p>\n<p>Without a liver transplant, the girls will die, and doctors in Toronto decided which of the twins would receive the transplant after the family said it could not make the decision.<\/p>\n<p>A post on the family&#8217;s Facebook page late Tuesday said the surgery for Wagner and Phuoc went well, though the next few days would be critial for the young girl.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials said the two operations would take 18 to 22 hours, and doctors expected to be able to provide an update on the surgeries this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagners, who have nine kids, are still waiting for a liver donor for their other daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Doctors are expected to issue an update today on a Kingston, Ont., father&#8217;s effort to save one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}