Claim: Prayers are requsted for Lauren Renee Pingel, a three-year-old girl from Amarillo, Texas, who was injured in an automobile accident.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
Subject: Prayer Request for Child in Amarillo, TX Last Friday about 12:30 P.M. My three year old granddaughter, Lauren Renee Pingel and her babysitter were on their way to do some shopping in a Ford Taurus. At an intersection North of Amarillo, around the River Road area a large pickup with a Rhino Guard Bumper failed to yield right of way and ran a stop sign. The pickup hit the car. Lauren was buckled in her car seat in the middle of the back seat. The pickup hit the side of the car about the middle. We are not sure what caused the terrible injury to Lauren. She had no broken bones or other injuries but severe head injuries. We have been told it was the Rhino Guard Bumper that hit her. She weighs about Some broken glass was also removed. A few hours later as her brain began to swell the doctors told son & daughter in law that if they did not perform a craniotomy she would die, and if they did perform it she still Her heart beat is strong. Her lungs are filled with fluid and they have diagnosed her with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Some of the tissue in her lungs has hardened. They are doing respiratory work every as tight as it can swell with both eyes swollen shut, it is also starting to bruise. It is so hard to see her lying there with all of the tubes. We have some great doctors and they have all been really good to talk to us and try to be compassionate. Her main doctor said today that we are maybe We think she can hear us when we talk to her. I read her a book tonight and her blood pressure dropped Name: Lauren Renee Pingel age 3 years Brad and Suzanne Pingel - Parents, Jodi RaeLynn Pingel - I hope to have a prayer chain going around the world with the help of the internet. Her name has been given to a missionary in Africa and they are praying for her there. Please send this request to anyone you know that will pray for us and the healing of our precious baby girl - Lauren JoAnn McCoy. |
Origins: All of the above is substantially true, with the caveat that "last Friday" (when the accident occurred) was
Last updated: 8 October 2007
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