vaccines mentioned on ATWT

[Guest guest]

I was watching As The World Turns Today on CBS and there was a scene where a

mother (jennifer) takes her son (johnny) to the hospital for his

vaccinations. ny is about 4-6 months old. He was a premie (actually

born at like 5-6 months and was very sick at first). was concerned

because after his last vaccination, he had a fevor and a rash. Jenn tells

the doctor that she wants to wait.

Lucy, who is a resident and ny's half sister and Jenn's husband's

x-girlfriend (ok- it's a soap), tells Jenn and the Dr. that ny should

get his vaccines because the fevor went away the next day, that is common,

and it's more important for him to be " protected " . As these words were

coming out of his mouth, my heart stopped.

Lucy also made some statement about how vaccines are totally safe and being

concerned about them is wrong.

I know this whole scene had a purpose (to show how Lucy is in their lives,

etc)

and the whole dialoge was plot driven (Jenn is worried about losing the

baby).

But, the crap that came out of Lucy's mouth was so irresponsible.

The Dr. told she could wait a week (thank god). Then goes

to her husband and says " we dodged a bullet with the vaccinations today " .

(LOL) She says how Lucy tried to make her feel like a bad mother for not

wanting to vaccinate her son.

When I get the transcript, I'll post them over the list. It was very

interesting. I already wrote an email to CBS, but i'll send them more after

getting the transcript. I think we really need to educate the writers of

the show.

And before you ask- YES, there was a Merck commercial between this scene.

(how ironic) Thank god the doctor didn't force Jenn to vaccinate the baby-

or I would have _________________ (fill in horrible thing here).

In the back of my mind, I was hoping ny would get the vaccine, have a

reaction and then start showing signs of autism. But, after seeing the

Merck commercial.

Well- that's it for now- gotta go chelate my kid now