{"id":6610,"date":"2016-01-26T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:01:12","slug":"6610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/26\/6610\/","title":{"rendered":"KARE 11 airs interview with Olivia Maccoux &#8217;18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-24-at-4.04.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-24-at-4.04.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Kare 11 - logo\" width=\"207\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>NBC affiliate KARE 11 recently aired an interview with Augsburg College student <strong>Olivia Maccoux &#8217;18,<\/strong> who will undergo brain surgery this week &#8212; her 121st procedure. Maccoux suffers from a condition called hydrocephalus, which causes excess fluid to pool around her\u00a0brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I trust my neurosurgeon, obviously with my life,&#8221; she said. Maccoux went on to explain\u00a0that the upcoming procedure will replace an infected shunt.\u00a0Maccoux has made the Dean&#8217;s List every semester that she has attended Augsburg, an accomplishment she intends to repeat this semester despite the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am going to try to do classes from the hospital when I can Skype into classes,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"asset-headline\">Read and watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/augsburg-student-prepares-for-her-121st-brain-surgery\/21188045\">Augsburg student prepares for her 121st brain surgery<\/a> on the KARE 11 site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC affiliate KARE 11 recently aired an interview with Augsburg College student Olivia Maccoux &#8217;18, who will undergo brain surgery this week &#8212; her 121st procedure. Maccoux suffers from a condition called hydrocephalus, which causes excess fluid to pool around her\u00a0brain. &#8220;I trust my neurosurgeon, obviously with my life,&#8221; she said. Maccoux went on to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3227,3759],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-kare-11","tag-olivia-maccoux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}