Robyn Rants Again. haha
2 Posts in one day.. You guys are lucky huh?
I just wanted to rant for a minute about something I learned yesterday.
I'm not a person who runs to the doctor at the sign of a sniffle, therefore I don't take my kid very often either... but I have a healthy kid. She gets allergies a couple times a year but I can control that myself, but other than that she's been very healthy her whole life. So, imagine my surprise when I was told that in order to register her for school, I had to get a copy of her immunizations..... so I got a copy.. and found out that she hasn't been to the doctor since 2003. Haha 4 years and no doctor visits..
Now the shot records don't tell you which shots they need when, so I figured she'd done missed out on like 10 of them... and that it would be a torture session to get her caught up and enrolled in school. But, I made the appt and we went yesterday... Well, I learned that if a kid misses a shot, they just skip it, they don't have to catch it up so she only needed her 4 year old shots and because she's a big kid, she got to skip one of those too... so she only had to get 3 shots yesterday... she caught a glimpse of the first needle and cried, which made me cry.. but the second and third shots the nurse did without her seeing and she didn't even notice it happened till she seen the band-aids so that was good.
But my rant is this:
I learned last night that you DON'T HAVE to immunize your kids. It's not a law, it's not required, it's meerly a suggestion. And yes you might argue that the reason none of these diseases are seen anymore is because of modern day immunizations, but just keep that to yourself cause I don't wanna hear it. lol That may be true... but at the same time, if the diseases are gone, then why not stop the shots? I just think that... if you're giving me a shot to say... stop a rash... and one of the side effects of that shot is a fucking rash then what's the goddamned point in the shot in the first place?
The chicken pox vaccene is retarded. The lady told me to watch for poxs up to a week after the shot... isn't the fucking thing supposed to keep you from getting the chicken pox? If it can cause them then why bother? that's just stupid. But I had to give in because I thought I had no choice.
They said she didn't need more until she was 11 years old.... but I know better now... they can kiss my ass in 2013. =) But I say that and I don't mean it because the one immunization I DO agree with is the tetanus one.... I've been exposed to tetanus before from my wreck and had to take a months round of antibiotics to ward off lock jaw. So that one,, yeah I agree with that one. I've also stepped on a nail before and was told it was a good thing I'd had a tetanus shot beforehand, and that's the one she'l need at 11 so I'll let her have that one, but if (not that I will) but if I have another kid... we're gonna go the shot free route.
posted by Robyn @ 10:27 AM
3 Comments:
Most preventative medical "things" are sugggestions. The best tool you have is doing just what you are doing...educate yourself about what you need and don't need and make the decision. Have a great week!
Okay, I won't tell you that the reason those diseases aren't around anymore is because we're immunizing. They ARE still around, waiting for someone with a weakened immune system to catch them. I was on the fence about immunizations until I read something from a mom who's kid CAN'T be immunized because of severe reactions, and basically she said that the only reason her kid could go out in public and play with other kids is because THEY were immunized and so they weren't carrying infection to her kid. And then I got to thinking about all the poor immune compromised kids...and long story short, my kids get shots. :) But you have to do what's right for you.
I can do nothing but echo Laina. But I need to stress the fact that she gave, these diseases are still around, chickenpox, scarlet fever, polio and TB ( which is on the rise again in the U.S.A.). It's just the fact that our kids are immunized against them that there are so few cases. Do you really want to play Russian roulette with your kids? I didn't and haven't.
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