Braedon Hembree Hoax

*********************************************************
Braedon Hembree is alive and well and no longer needs
your prayers. For more information see
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/braedon.htm

If you really want to help a sick child, make a donation to
the Make-A-Wish foundation http://www.wish.org/ or the American
Cancer Society http://www2.cancer.org/donate/ or the Pediatric AIDS
Foundation http://www.pedaids.org/
*********************************************************

EMERGENCY PRAYER REQUEST PLEASE READ, PRAY, THEN FORWARD.

Prayers are needed for Braedon Hembree and his family. Everyone with
large mailing list, please forward. I 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 Laurens County 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 is recognizing 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 worse. 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 and 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 to pray 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 Bless You, PLEASE READ, PRAY, THEN FORWARD