Video Of Cystic Fibrosis Boy Taking Tablets Gets 1M Hits On Facebook And CF Trust Support
The BBC reported this story 2 days ago. At the time the video had 650,000 hits.
The story is simple. Jesse O’Brien, 6, has Cystic Fibrosis and dislikes taking his medication. So his mother, Heidi, ‘bribed’ him, saying that if he took his tablets, she would video it and put it on Facebook to see how many likes it would get.
She expected a few hundred likes and maybe some positive comments.
But the video took off. At the time of writing it has over 1 Million hits and tens of thousands of likes and shares.
It has gained the support of UK charity The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and has even led to a fundraising campaign. The details are from Heidi O’Brien’s Facebook page:
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Let’s #beatCF so please text JESSE to 70300 to donate £3 to Cystic Fibrosis Trust and help children like my boy! Thank you so much for your kind words and support, it’s helped Jesse so much!
And that, dear readers, is proof of the power of a mother’s tough love, with a little help from modern technology!
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