Hoaxes & E-mail that won't Die (ETWD)
Braedon Hembree
NOTE: The following text is a lab sample of a multi-forwarded e-mail message. !!! DO NOT COPY OR FORWARD IT!!! At least a portion of this message is a direct copy of both the condition and the ficticious request of a known hoax. (See Amanda Bundy & Novenche)
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PRAY, THEN FORWARD
Prayers are needed for Braedon Hembree and his family. Everyone with a large mailing list, please forward. I, Dr. J. Matthew Durham, am writing to you now to ask for your help. I do not really know how to start a prayer chain, but we need a miracle. Braedon is just a 20-month-old baby boy in Clinton, South Carolina. A few weeks ago his parents took him to Lauren's Country Hospital with double pneumonia (both lungs). The next night he was transferred to Greenville Memorial Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in critical condition. He is in a "coma-like" state and on a respirator battling viral pneumonia.
Braedon is only 20 months old and very weak. He isrecognizing voices, as his heart rate goes up when they sing/talk to him,it especially got stronger when his big sister, Krista, talked with him. The doctor says this is good and this makes him think that Braedon's brain is doing fine.
However, the doctors are perplexed by the type of viral pneumonia he is fighting. There is a hole in his lung that may require surgery.
Braedon, has recently taken a turn for the worst. His blood pressure is extremely high, leading the doctors to think he is having seizures or strokes. He now has 18 chest tubes and lots of scar tissue building in his lungs. The right lung has no healthy tissue at all, but at this point he would not survive a lung transplant. He is still on life support and may be on it for a long time. The family appreciates all your prayers and they continue to have lots of hope for improvement. I am told the family's faith is such that they are expecting a miracle soon. Be a part of that miracle.
The power of prayer is great. I ask for your prayers on their behalf.Please pray for Braedon's healing and for strength nd comfort for his family. He is only 20 months old. I am asking you to send this letter, or copies of it, to everybody you can think of that will pray for Braedon.
Please also take his name to your church and church groups and ask others topray for his healing. Many thanks and may God bless each one of you who cares enough to pray for a little boy's life. I am asking that each and every one of you please forward this on to everyone that you know. Please take time to do this right now.
God BlessYou, PLEASE READ, PRAY, THEN FORWARD. EMERGENCY PRAYER REQUEST.
originated from: Dr. J. Matthew Durham 102 Ellis Ave Abbeville, SC 29620 864-459-4173
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