Camperdown's golden girl faces a long health journey

Katrina Lovell
Updated June 11 2021 - 2:08pm, first published 11:34am
Support: Charlene Elsum with her daughter Goldie has been amazed at how her home-town of Camperdown has rallied around the family after a GoFundMe raised more than $20,000. Picture: Chris Doheny
Support: Charlene Elsum with her daughter Goldie has been amazed at how her home-town of Camperdown has rallied around the family after a GoFundMe raised more than $20,000. Picture: Chris Doheny

Last year Goldie Elsum's parents had to make the heartbreaking decision to allow doctors to operate and "disconnect" the left side of their toddler's brain to help stop the 100 seizures she was having each day.

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Katrina Lovell

Katrina Lovell

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Katrina Lovell is a senior journalist at The Standard who covers council news and human interest stories.

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