Stunned to see Anti-Vax knuckleheads here on DU.

[xmas74]

34. Proud Pro-Vax and made sure my kid has everything up to date.

I worked in a state hospital with developmentally disabled adults. I saw what can happen when vaccines were not administered or didn't exist, in some cases, when the patient contracted whatever disease. It's not pretty.

Wanna know a possible "side effect" of measles? Encephalitis. I saw it on a few adults at the hab center. That alone was enough to scare me into vaccinating on schedule.

When I was pregnant I still worked at the hab center. A parent of an individual I cared for came to visit his son. We had always been friendly and when he realized I was pregnant he became serious. He pleaded with me to get the MMR vaccine. Why? Because if his son had been vaccinated he wouldn't have contracted measles, which in turn became encephalitis, which in turn fried his brain. He was forty with the mental age of a two year old. His charts said before measles he was considered to be very bright, almost gifted.

We had doctors on grounds. They had children. They all were pro vaccinations. Why? Because we all saw what could happen without them.