The last thing you hope for on Christmas Day is for the lights to turn off and to lose power in your home, but for many Aussies that was the reality as storms ravaged parts of Queensland. And for one family the unwelcome turn of events caused a much more dire problem than sour milk.
Kristy Holmes’ son Levi, 11, relies on a dialysis machine and receives treatment several times a week to manage the impacts of kidney failure. After power was still not restored in her Gold Coast home on Boxing Day, the family had to scramble to find a way to power the life-saving machine — turning to their electric vehicle.
“We ran an extension cord, a very long extension cord, from the car outside, up the stairs into Levi’s bedroom where his dialysis machine is,” she told Yahoo News Australia.
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