Pray for 15-year-old Amanda-Fiction!
Summary of eRumor:
This eRumor includes a message from a 15-year-old girl named Amanda and another message from her mother.
It says that Amanda is suffering from a mysterious degenerative medical condition and wants people to pray for her and let her know they are praying.
She says the Make-A-Wish Foundation is sending her and her family to Hawaii.
The Truth:
There are several things about the email that don’t ring true.
It says that the girl has an “undiagnosed” condition. Anyone who has a girl with health issues as serious as described would probably not misuse the word “diagnosed.”
If she’s got a “neuromuscular degenerative disease,” that’s a diagnosis even though the cause of it or the prognosis may be uncertain.
The story avoids the kind of details that a mother would normally include in a narrative about a seriously ill child.
We checked with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and they said they didn’t know anything about this story.
Last updated 3/11/04