Please help a sick child -

[Silvite]

In Ottawa, there is a seven-year old boy who is very, very sick in CHEO (children's hospital of eastern ontario), his name is Shane. His parents called kiss fm this morning about trying to break the world record of greeting cards. The little guy is fighting a long, hard battle for his life.

We're trying to collect cards of any kind: Valentine's, greeting, Christmas, Birthday, homemade or store-bought, for Shane. His birthday is May, and it doesn't look so good.

If anyone wants to get involved in this, please send me a PM and I can give you my mailing address. I'm planning on doing a drop-off to kiss, and to CHEO with kiss, since I am getting a few from overseas.

They want to get some cards from not only all over Canada, but the world.

Please help this little guy out. It's so sad.

A friend of mine made a website for this: http://www.cardsforshane.tk

Thank you.

 

[kdibattista]

PM sent

 

[munchkin bunchkin]

Mine is on the way!

 

[Silvite]

Thank you very much!

I will be personally delievering everything I recieve to Shane on my birthday, February 22nd.

 

[VickynMickey]

Wow, what a great birthday present. I hope he gets a million cards.
Please keep us updated on this story thanks and here is sending for Shane and his family

 

[Feralpeg]

I sent you a PM.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Has this been verifired? I know the Craig Shergold story is still going around about getting that world record. I'd hate to see people sending cards due to an urban legend.
Robin M.

 

[debbi801]

Thank you very much!

I will be personally delievering everything I recieve to Shane on my birthday, February 22nd.

PM sent and you have a great birthday! My youngest shares it with you. he was born 02-22-02

 

[phamton]

They may want to rethink this as the Guiness Book of World records has withdrawn that category. So even with all the cards, there is no world record to make. It became a nightmare for other families that have tried this:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/shergold.htm

"It's hard to believe that so much good will and fine intentions could wreak havoc, but they have. And they still are.

There really is a Craig Shergold, and he did have cancer. In 1989 an appeal was made on behalf of this then 9-year-old English boy afflicted with a terminal brain tumor. Young Craig wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for having received the most greeting cards. By 1990, 16 million cards had arrived, and his wish had come true. (According to the 1997 edition of that book, by May 1991 he had collected 33 million.)

Ah, but that was then, and this is now. Shergold's tumor was successfully removed in March 1991, and this lad (born 24 June 1979) is now a healthy young man. However, like the implements in the Sorceror's Apprentice, the cards and letters have proved impossible to stop — they just keep rolling in. Several versions of the Craig Shergold appeal still circulate, and almost every one of them now asks for business cards, not greeting cards. (In yet another form of the same hoax, compliments slips are solicited.)

A related "dying wish" request goes out in the name of Ryan McGee of Virginia. (His name is sometimes munged as Ron McKee.) Though the child is real and he is battling a form of cancer (for which the prognosis is, and always has been, good), the request being made in his name is not. He never expressed any wish for cards or to get into the record books. Somewhere along the line, someone starred him in a version of the Craig Shergold hoax, transforming him into a dying child with a jones for cards.

Because of the volume of mail being sent to his home, the family halted mail delivery to their address. They also moved."

 

[Silvite]

Has this been verifired? I know the Craig Shergold story is still going around about getting that world record. I'd hate to see people sending cards due to an urban legend.
Robin M.

sorry honey, i'm not like that.

here's the media on it:

http://www.cjoh.com/view_info.asp?id=3992

i started collecting before the radio station did, and i'll be bringing everything to him earlier than they will. it's people'schoice where they want to send the cards.

 

[Silvite]

They may want to rethink this as the Guiness Book of World records has withdrawn that category. So even with all the cards, there is no world record to make. It became a nightmare for other families that have tried this:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/shergold.htm

"It's hard to believe that so much good will and fine intentions could wreak havoc, but they have. And they still are.

There really is a Craig Shergold, and he did have cancer. In 1989 an appeal was made on behalf of this then 9-year-old English boy afflicted with a terminal brain tumor. Young Craig wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for having received the most greeting cards. By 1990, 16 million cards had arrived, and his wish had come true. (According to the 1997 edition of that book, by May 1991 he had collected 33 million.)

Ah, but that was then, and this is now. Shergold's tumor was successfully removed in March 1991, and this lad (born 24 June 1979) is now a healthy young man. However, like the implements in the Sorceror's Apprentice, the cards and letters have proved impossible to stop — they just keep rolling in. Several versions of the Craig Shergold appeal still circulate, and almost every one of them now asks for business cards, not greeting cards. (In yet another form of the same hoax, compliments slips are solicited.)

A related "dying wish" request goes out in the name of Ryan McGee of Virginia. (His name is sometimes munged as Ron McKee.) Though the child is real and he is battling a form of cancer (for which the prognosis is, and always has been, good), the request being made in his name is not. He never expressed any wish for cards or to get into the record books. Somewhere along the line, someone starred him in a version of the Craig Shergold hoax, transforming him into a dying child with a jones for cards.

Because of the volume of mail being sent to his home, the family halted mail delivery to their address. They also moved."

damn

but in the end, what matters is that we are somehow able to inspire this little boy to keep up the fight.