Education a lifeline for sick kids

By Louise Bellamy
Updated November 20 2012 - 12:18pm, first published November 10 2012 - 3:00am
Ross Dullard teaches Keegan Quinney.
Ross Dullard teaches Keegan Quinney.
Jessie Webster and Sophie Mould (left) at the Royal Children's Hospital.
Jessie Webster and Sophie Mould (left) at the Royal Children's Hospital.

THE sign on the front door of Keegan Quinney's home tells part of the story: ''Stop. Think. Are you ill? We have a child that must not get sick.'' Keegan and his parents wrote the sign when he was four because he was sick of being sick. What it doesn't say is that if you are ill and visit, he will develop pneumonia within a few hours and be rushed to the Royal Children's Hospital, where cysts will develop on his lung for weeks on end.

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