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Malcolm.
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From: "Catherine Davies" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [echurch-uk] Prayers for scalded 10-month-old


>A message this morning to our church from the Grandmother's friend..."Thank 
>you for your prayers, they are working as they took some of the dressings 
>off and new skin is growing on her face - totally against expectations! 
>frenchay burns unit are considering moving her to Taunton Hospital this 
>week, which will make it so much easier for the family who live 
>there..please keep on praying"
> Praise be to God.
>
> Blessings
> Catherine Davies
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> We walk by faith not by sight
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Catherine Davies
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>  Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:12 PM
>  Subject: [echurch-uk] Prayers for scalded 10-month-old
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>  One of our older church members, Peter, was approached in the park last 
> week by a lady he knows slightly. She told him her friend's grand-daughter 
> had been left with 85% burns after a freak accident and asked if he would 
> ask his church (Minehead Baptist church, which we also go to) to pray for 
> her. This lady then said to Peter, "All I know about your church is that I 
> have heard it is a praying church". Please join us, and many others, in 
> praying for this child, her family and her doctors and nurses. Her 2 year 
> old sister was in the room, she is unhurt but severely traumatised, if she 
> hears a kettle boiling she starts screaming.
>  Here are the details from the BBC news:
>
>  Prayers for scalded 10-month-old
>  Prayers were being said for a 10-month-old baby who was scalded when hot 
> water pipes burst above her cot.
>  Rhianna Hardie remains in a critical condition in hospital after 
> suffering 85% burns in the accident at her council house in Taunton, 
> Somerset.
>
>  Doctors have told the baby's family her injuries are so severe that she 
> only has a 20% chance of survival.
>
>  The Rev Tim Jones said: "Our thoughts are with her family and we are of 
> course here to support them."
>
>  "All churchgoers have been saying prayers for Rhianna and her family at 
> this time of tragedy and hoping and praying she will pull through," he 
> said.
>
>  Rhianna was scalded on only the second night the family had spent in 
> their council house.
>
>  Her parents heard a loud bang in her room and found boiling water pouring 
> from pipes on to the child's cot.
>
>  Her father Mathew Hardie, 27, suffered burns to his hands and arms as he 
> pulled Rhianna from the cot.
>
>  She was taken to Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital, before being 
> transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and then to the city's 
> Children's Hospital, where she is currently under sedation and in a 
> critical condition.
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>  Skin grafts
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>  Mr Hardie and the baby's mother Charlene Haworth, 23, have been at the 
> baby's bedside since the accident last Sunday.
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>  Doctors have told the family that the next four weeks will be critical to 
> Rhianna's survival.
>
>  They hope to use skin grafts from her midriff - which was protected from 
> the boiling water by her nappy - to grow skin that could be applied to her 
> face and body.
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>  The baby's grandmother Kathleen McKenzie, 47, said: "The main thing is 
> that she is still here.
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>  "She's a real little fighter and that has got to bode well for the next 
> few weeks.
>
>  "The family would just like to thank everyone for being so kind to us 
> during this difficult time."
>
>  The Health and Safety Executive and Taunton Deane Borough Council have 
> both launched an investigation into the accident.
>
>  Avon and Somerset Police have said there are no suspicious circumstance 
> surrounding the baby's injuries.
>
>  Blessings
>  Catherine Davies
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>  We walk by faith not by sight
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