Trivial information and internet communication make for bandwidth-wasting and brain-numbing exchanges — friendly, maybe, but your spouse will consider filing papers.
Until it saves your kid’s life with a dramatic diagnosis of a deadly disease across an ocean.
Look at the BBC report on the toddler in Florida whose life was saved by a transatlantic, e-mail suggested diagnosis. Print story from BBC, here.
A toddler in Florida has been diagnosed with cancer after a Manchester woman saw early warning signs in a picture.
Madeleine Robb, from Stretford, who has never met her pen pal, spotted a shadow behind one of Rowan Santos’s eyes on pictures from her first birthday.
She then e-mailed her mother Megan advising her to get medical help.
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer – Retinoblastoma – and underwent an operation and is having chemotherapy.
The two mothers became friends on an internet messageboard after their children were born on the same day.
But when Mrs Robb saw the pictures she said she knew something was not right.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Moments in Time.
[FireFox 3 doesn’t support the old video capture of VodPod; my apologies for sending you to the video, though sending someone to a BBC site is probably a great act of education.]
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