we got a call on friday from the school that they are giving the h1n1 vaccine at school, for free. i mentioned to the husband that day that i wasn’t interested in him getting the vaccine.
husband waits until early evening on sunday to tell me that he wants the boy to get the shot. i looked over just to be sure it was the same guy i married b/c the guy i married isn’t big on medication and believes we should let our bodies do their magic and build up resistance (for most things, like colds and viruses).
we began debating the topic of the vaccine, and something inside me got a little pissed. ok, so pissed that i go to the garage to smoke and think, “I’VE MARRIED THE COMPLETELY WRONG PERSON FOR ME”. he can’t be against medications and then all of the sudden CHANGE ON ME!
he tells me that our son can’t afford to lose five pounds if he gets the flu. i look at him and wonder if he’s delusional. if our son loses five pounds, he’s not going to die. this scenario wasn’t an acceptable argument to me.
there should be things like this on a marrying test before you get married. i mean, we study books for driver’s education but you can go and marry anybody with no written test first. that’s CRAZY.
i start trying to do some online research about it and mostly i find opposing views on the subject and i cannot determine fact from crazy. i asked the internet and got a few responses on twitter and facebook.
my main reason is that the boy is rarely sick (now that i say that, he’ll probably get sick in a few days).
i just don’t see it as a threat to us and i am not big doing something just b/c everyone else is doing it.
nor am i undermining the folks that have gotten the h1n1 virus, i got no beef with that.
when it was decided that the boy would not be circumcised, i left that completely up to the husband on account of me not having a penis.
we didn’t resolve this situation, i’m not sure what’ll happen and i’m still thinking it over. i just believe that for some things if it’s not broken then i should just leave it be.
what do you think? feel free to respond even if you disagree with me. i’m looking for compelling reasons on the topic.
November 9, 2009 at 8:54 am |
I got the regular flu shot and would get the H1N1 if it becomes available to me. I do not want to get the flu ever again if I can prevent it.
Have you asked the boy?
November 9, 2009 at 9:17 am |
i never thought to ask the boy, but i will now
thanks for that idea.
November 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm |
I am usually against flu shots, but if a h1n1 vaccine was offered free I would take it.
The deal is that there are dozens of flu types and a normal flu shot only hits two or three, so you are only getting protected against a fraction of the flu going around.
The h1n1 however is a specific strain that is effecting healthy people more than the normal flu. It’s not all the weak that are having problems with the flu like normal.
I’m not searching out the shot but I wouldn’t turn it down.
November 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm |
I think that for your average healthy adult, I would say no, don’t get it. But, Because the boy is exposed all day long to sooo many germs just being at school, I would recommend getting him the shot. Just to be on the safe side.
November 10, 2009 at 2:39 am |
In general, your natural immunity to things works because you have been exposed to those things in the past. The reason that I am pro-vaccine in all cases, including this one, is that they work with you body’s natural immune system. You are simply helping your immune system along by exposing it to things to which you haven’t yet been exposed. Your kid may have a great immune system, as do I, but H1N1 is highly contagious, particularly among his age group due to lack of exposure to anything like it before.
November 10, 2009 at 12:36 pm |
I would get the H1N1 in a heartbeat. Same goes for my kids. But they are adults. My grandkids need it in my opinion but their mom and dad don’t believe it in….whatever that means. I agree w/So, I’d rather be safe than sorry, and sorry in this case can be quite tragic.
November 11, 2009 at 7:25 pm |
I’m going to side firmly with you on this one Leah. Because H1N1 is just another flu and because the vaccine is untested and we don’t know all the risks and because the media is hyping this flu so much that it’s sounding like the Black Plague and scaring perfectly sane people into lining up for hours to get this shot. (I can’t believe they’re giving it out at school by you — people here are lining up for 7+ hours in the rain at specially designated vaccine clinics) It’s probably too late, but I vote against any unnecessary poisons being injected into a person’s body.
November 13, 2009 at 10:08 am |
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November 13, 2009 at 11:25 am |
I won’t get it myself, because I already have mercury toxicity from dental work and it’s suppressed my thyroid function enough that I now take medication for the thyroid problem. Mercury amalgam fillings were the standard of care for a long time before the toxicity of HELLO HEAVY METALS IN MOUTH became obvious enough to dent the radar dish of the public health machine, right? So obviously what’s popular (and effective, even – mercury fillings last a long time and do the job they’re supposed to do; they just f*ck something else up in the process) isn’t necessarily safe.
Health care is driven by money, someone is paying pharmaceutical companies for those shots even when it isn’t the end user, and if you follow the money, you find all sorts of reasons why scientists who are paid to say so would encourage getting any vaccine that’s offered – but those vaccines are made by humans, humans make mistakes, and one mistake is to put heavy metal in a vaccine and inject it into your body. In my mercury-poisoned opinion. So.
I think it would be worth picking your husband’s brain to find out how this change of policy came about. Don’t argue, just ask questions. Eventually the truth will come out.
November 15, 2009 at 2:03 am |
hallie: thanks for commenting, i’d love to hear more from others that have been on the bad side of immunizations.
November 15, 2009 at 11:12 am |
Check out the VRAN (Vaccine Risk Awareness Network website, Leah. http://vran.org/
November 16, 2009 at 7:11 pm |
thanks you, that’s a VERY informative site and i passed it on to the husband. we’re not going to do the vaccine.
November 16, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I haven’t really checked out any anti-vaccination stuff before. I just did and that stuff reeks of pseudoscience. (Think of Snake Oil and Used Car Salesmen.)
I will agree that the H1N1 vaccine may be rushed, but it not a part of some govt. conspiracy or bad science. If you don’t get the vaccine do it because you don’t think the there is enough danger from the flu strain, not from fear mongering of vaccines in general.
November 16, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
mr. snow, i decided to not have him have the vaccine b/c he’s not sick very often, and b/c the vaccine contains mercury. (p.s. did you read my husbands comment on http://dailypiglet.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/things-and-happenings/? you two are similar is why i point it out.)
November 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm |
Ok I have no stance on the H1N1 or not. It’s your kid do whatever you think is right, HOWEVER I have a big problem with VRAN’s website. Right off the bat 2nd section: Vaccination: What you need to know claims that vaccines cause autoimmune disorders such as cancer, leukemia, Rheumatiod Arthritis, MS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Lupus and Guillian Barr syndrome. Cancer, leukemia MS, and Lou Gehrigs disease are not autoimmune disorders! I wouldn’t be able to buy into a website that has such blatant misinformation within the first sections of their main page.
November 18, 2009 at 10:11 am |
Joanne – Actually cancer, leukemia, MS and LGD ARE all related to the immune system. Most of what can go wrong with us is immune-related. The immune system has so many vital and diverse functions and requires such precise balancing, which is why it’s so important not to mess with it unnecessarily.