{"id":877416,"date":"2026-09-02T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:40:13","slug":"bella-bradford-went-in-for-a-dental-appointment-her-life-changed-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877416\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Bradford went in for a dental appointment. Her life changed forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bella\u2019s mum Jill says her daughter lived by one simple rule: make every day count.<\/p>\n<p>Bella swapped her hometown of Adelaide for Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach to pursue her dreams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bella\u2019s mum Jill says her daughter lived by one simple rule: make every day count.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/666d0c32a3bacdcf2c796900f4b282735c584bf17b105419d8f0aa85787eff3d.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Bella\u2019s mum Jill says her daughter lived by one simple rule: make every day count.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe just had a zest for life and loved people,\u201d Jill said.<\/p>\n<p>But a routine dental appointment for her wisdom teeth changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter about a week or two weeks she was in more pain than before they came out,\u201d Jill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did a biopsy and they discovered she had a cancer in her jaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bella began chemotherapy at Sydney\u2019s Chris O\u2019Brien Lifehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all Bella\u2019s spirit remained unbreakable.<\/p>\n<p>In her honour, Bella\u2019s loved ones are coming together for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gothedistance.org.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\">Go The Distance<\/a> fitness fundraiser this September.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella\u2019s mum Jill says her daughter lived by one simple rule: make every day count. Bella swapped her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-877416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877416","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=877416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}