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In reply to the discussion: Let's cut to the chase. Raise your hand if you have, or would, or will, vaccinate your kids. [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)95. This is what happened to my kid.
When she was about 8 months old, she was exposed to three day measles (rubella) when we went to visit some people one weekend and their kids had it but we didn't know it.
she was too young to be vaccinated (the standard age is 12 to 18 months) and her skin had little red and white dots like hamburger meat, but they were not raised pustules. So she had to suffer through that. She's gotten all her shots otherwise. She's grown now.
I had chickenpox when I was a baby and still have a pit on the side of my nose that nobody would notice. I think I had 3 day measles but not serious measles.
I knew a lady who was born in 1901 in a sod house and she told me that she had had smallpox. That blew my mind.
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Let's cut to the chase. Raise your hand if you have, or would, or will, vaccinate your kids. [View all]
WilliamPitt
Feb 2015
OP
Bad Deal rightwing ideology - 35 years into it - has permeated everywhere.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2015
#104
You are right that autism has environmental triggers and all avenues should continue to be examined.
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#34
She Who Must be Obeyed went a little slow with the program and spread them over a bit of time
Brother Buzz
Feb 2015
#24
Called my doctors office yesterday to have the test that determines the need for boosters.
jwirr
Feb 2015
#55
Yep, they were. One was a National Merit finalist and the other really successful accountant.
Shrike47
Feb 2015
#38
Both of my kids were vaccinated back in the 1960's, even when we had to scrape to pay the doctor.
Paper Roses
Feb 2015
#41
Let's cut to the chase. Raise your hand if you have, or would, or will, vaccinate your kids.
The CCC
Feb 2015
#79
Now they're recommending that adults get the adult pertussis vaccine more often
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#135
What kind of a cretan would rather their kid suffer from a disease like measles . . .
another_liberal
Feb 2015
#88
I was, my kids were, my Grand kids were and my Great Grandson, my dogs and my cats.
Autumn
Feb 2015
#90
I cannot fathom the mentality of people who refuse to vaccinate their children
Skittles
Feb 2015
#92
I have no kids, but I would have vaccinated them if i'd had them.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2015
#101
Fully vaccinated for years and tired of all the hyperbole about NOT vaccinating!!!!
benld74
Feb 2015
#105