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Originally Posted by KimberlyD0  After hearing everyones "bug in the ear" a million times I want the bug crushed personally...  I come from the "enough already" side of things.
As I have been pestered about it so much I've personally gotten sick of it. I leave talks about theses types of issues, for when I am asked. I suppose I just kind of put myself in their shoes. I'm tired of hearing it, I don't want to hear it, and I want to be left alone to make my own chice, so I do the same for them.  |
Not everyone is sick of hearing it...in fact, some have no idea that there are parents who selectively vaccinate or don't vaccinate. I would hope that if you and I were in a conversation about vaccines, and I mentioned my story (like I said, briefly and politely) that you would in turn briefly and politely inform me that you didn't want to hear it. And that would be the end of it.
I speak up for the parents who have no idea, about any of it. And for the ones who know a little, but need the idea reinforced in a friendly non-confrontational manner. And I've gotten many thanks over the years for speaking up. It's such an important issue, and to always be silent for fear that you'll step on someone's toes is not helpful to the cause.
Quick example for you Kim. A few months ago I was getting my hair done. My hairstylist and friend was bragging about her children and showing me pictures. She then went on to say that her youngest, who is two, has not been healthy at all. She has had 3 seizure episodes, which led to an MRI and many other tests (inconclusive) and eventually the prescribing of a VERY strong medicine for epilepsy. Even though, said her neurologist, she does not have epilepsy. They simply didn't know why she keeps having seizures. She also has been very sick all the time with fever, frequent infections, and allergies. My friend expressed concern over her daughter's health and the risks of the epilepsy medicine.
I asked her if the seizures happened soon after having vaccines. She blinked a few times, as though this was the first time she'd ever been asked this, and said, "Well...yes." I told her of my daughter's experiences. She is now checking into the possibility of the vaccines causing the seizures.
I don't know what will come of this story, but this mother now knows that 1) vaccines can cause seizures (she'd never been told this by her pediatrician or pediatric neurologist) and that 2) other parents are concerned enough about vaccine risks to consider not vaccinating. Hopefully my friend will sit down and begin researching vaccine risks, because I greatly suspect her child is reacting to vaccines just by listening to her story. People won't research this issue if they don't know there's an issue to research.
