{"id":81825,"date":"2025-08-20T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81825\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:03:07","slug":"home-at-last-bay-93-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81825\/","title":{"rendered":"Home at last &#8211; bay 93.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post has brought good news for the family and friends of Grovedale teacher Layton McCann, who fell seriously ill while on an overseas honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>He and new wife Whitney were travelling through America and Mexico last month, when Layton fell ill with a severe case of acute pancreatitis.<\/p>\n<p>It left him in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He spent days hooked up to a ventilator in a Mexican hospital Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The Geelong community rallied around the couple, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/7rw3k-honeymoon-hell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> appeal raising $40,000 for his treatment, accommodation and return to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>That finally happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a long and exhaustive journey, Layton was brought home to Australia with a nurse escort,\u201d the post raed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was then taken to Geelong hospital to continue his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince arriving, the medical team has started fresh with blood tests, X-rays, and CT scans, and he is now being closely monitored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are beyond grateful that he is back on Australian soil, surrounded by the care he needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His family has posted a message to social media thanking everyone for the \u201ccontinued love, support, and generosity\u2014it truly means the world to them\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social media post has brought good news for the family and friends of Grovedale teacher Layton McCann,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-81825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}