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In reply to the discussion: For those who don't believe in vaccinations. How would you like to be this parent? [View all]llmart
(15,540 posts)29. I had both kinds of measles as a child.
When I had the German measles (the worst sort) my mother put me in the darkest room in the house and pulled the blinds. It was one of the only times I remember being taken to a doctor. I was given some cheapie sunglasses to wear home in the car and I thought I was hot stuff!
I have very bad eyesight - very nearsighted for most of my adult life and diagnosed with macular degeneration in my late 50's. I often wonder if that wasn't the reason why.
My niece is an anti-vaxxer and she thinks she knows everything.
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For those who don't believe in vaccinations. How would you like to be this parent? [View all]
shraby
Aug 2018
OP
Every school I ever attended had its share of children in metal leg braces using crutches. ...
Hekate
Aug 2018
#13
Thanks to Facebook echo chambers, my own daughter is convinced her baby died of vaccinations
Hekate
Aug 2018
#8
How would you like to be my mother in 1960, when her baby died the day after her DPT?
pnwmom
Aug 2018
#11
I think one of the lies that's been peddled is that there was no SIDS before vaccines...
Hekate
Aug 2018
#19
I come from a period of time when the health department came into the schools and
shraby
Aug 2018
#18
Me, too. And bad reactions don't usually happen instantly, so you wouldn't have known.
pnwmom
Aug 2018
#20