reply to post by Reevster
Yes, I agree, do not get it. It is being pushed hard, it seems around every corner is a makeshift flu vaccination clinic.
Last year, neither myself nor anyone in my immediate family got the vaccine. None of us were ill the entire season. My aunt and her son got it...both
got extremely ill within four weeks, and he ended up with a severe lung infection. But she is a die-hard 'the gov't would never do anything to harm
us' person.
I got to a cardiologist for a heart condition on a regular basis, and a few months after the huge H1N1 scare started and everyone was running for the
nearest vaccine, I had an appointment. I found myself sitting next to a lady that was using oxygen continuously. Nothing unsusual, really, in that
particular office considering the age of most of the patients. But she was, at the most, in her early 40s. It had been weighing heavily on my mind
about whether or not I should get my kids vaccinated, alternating between listening to my intuition which was saying 'hell no' and my conditioned
response of doing what my elders tell me to do, when out of nowhere this lady asks me if I've had the vaccine. I said 'No...why?'
'Well,' she responded, 'I got it. About five weeks later I woke up in the middle of the night and could not breath. I came into the ER, they ran
all kinds of tests, but couldn't really find anything. But I've been on this oxygen 24 hrs a day now for almost a month and a half.'
I asked her if she thought it was the vaccine. She stated that since she had not had any health concerns before that, did not smoke, did not have COPD
or anything of the sort, that yes, she thought it was related to the vaccine. She then went on to say that she tried contacting the CDC to report what
happened, and she can only leave messages and as of that day she still had not received any replies to her messages. She said the doctor didn't
really want to say it was because of the vaccine, but they are still trying to figure out what was going on with her lungs. But, bless her heart, she
said she was telling as many people as she could.
Listen to your intuition.