vaccines back in the 1950s

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Hi,

I recently went to my brother's funeral (December) and it was a sort of

closure of a very painful existence. However, I had hoped to find some

answer to what happened to him, and now I feel like it is too late. He was

born a full term 8 lb beautiful boy. It was in an Army hospital in Rhode

Island. Soon after, my father went off to sea and left my Mom alone in a

strange town, in the dead of winter with her first child. She tried to

breast feed only to learn she was given " drying up pills " not knowing what

they were. He screamed day and night. Eventually, on the advice of her

father, she gave him goat's milk and he had his first normal BM. He did not

meet milestones. He cried for hours if startled by a loud noise. He was

fascinated by newspaper print. He never developed cognitively beyond 3

months. No one ever offered any explanation. I lived in fear all my life

that I would produce a child similar.

What could he have gotten at 3 months that would have stopped his

development? DPT? I also wondered about inborn errors of metabolism, but I

don't know if he was ever tested. My Mom's memory is not the best, and I

don't know if I will ever have any answers now. But I wonder, and could it

hold the key to my son's issues?

Carol G

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Carol,

You know it is interesting, I have my son with autism who is eight,

but I also have an older son from my first marriage. My older son is

now 23 he was a big beautiful baby boy, happy healthy, slept great

was gaining weight and progressing wonderfully. He started out as my

easy baby, he had a cold and went in for his 6 months DPT. He got

very sick, got thrush, got the runs, and started loosing weight

quickly. He was diappearing right before my eyes, and I didn't know

what to do about it. I have pictures, it is so sad. I had a great

pediatric allergist, when I mentioned what happened he quickly did

blood work. The doctors office called me and asked me to come in as

soon as possible and they gave him a very large vial of

gammoglobulin, now I was in my early 20's and never thought to ask

why they did that. My son grew up being very different, he was

delayed in his speech, he had trouble toilet training, he was

emotionally immature, hed problems learning in school,wanted to be

alone often, and never quite fit in socially, and life was just

harder on him all together, he spoke out commericials at the table

in the middle of a normal converstion that we were all having, Now

that I look at the whole picture, and when I read about autism, and

with all that I know now, I know my first son was damaged also,and

this truely broke my heart, he may have been diagnosed with

asbergers. This is very possible that your brother was damaged by the

immunizations. There is book A SHOT IN THE DARK, your brother story

is probably similar to many that are in the book. This must have been

so difficult for your family, and so hard for you as you have always

grown up with this fear. My older dauthter has always had the same

fear, because of both my boys. She is so afraid to have another

child, for fear it might be a boy, she says she would not be able to

handle it , that she would give it to me for fear it might happen to

her son also. She does have a beautiful happy healthy little girl,

not immunized and doing wonderful, Praise God.

Carol, my heart goes out to you and your family this must have been a

painful thing in your life, how old was you brother? Leah

-- In @y..., cugoodson@a... wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I recently went to my brother's funeral (December) and it was a

sort of

> closure of a very painful existence. However, I had hoped to find

some

> answer to what happened to him, and now I feel like it is too

late. He was

> born a full term 8 lb beautiful boy. It was in an Army hospital in

Rhode

> Island. Soon after, my father went off to sea and left my Mom

alone in a

> strange town, in the dead of winter with her first child. She

tried to

> breast feed only to learn she was given " drying up pills " not

knowing what

> they were. He screamed day and night. Eventually, on the advice

of her

> father, she gave him goat's milk and he had his first normal BM.

He did not

> meet milestones. He cried for hours if startled by a loud noise.

He was

> fascinated by newspaper print. He never developed cognitively

beyond 3

> months. No one ever offered any explanation. I lived in fear all

my life

> that I would produce a child similar.

>

> What could he have gotten at 3 months that would have stopped his

> development? DPT? I also wondered about inborn errors of

metabolism, but I

> don't know if he was ever tested. My Mom's memory is not the best,

and I

> don't know if I will ever have any answers now. But I wonder, and

could it

> hold the key to my son's issues?

>

> Carol G

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In a message dated 3/20/01 11:52:26 AM Pacific Standard Time,

valadez4@... writes:

<< Carol, my heart goes out to you and your family this must have been a

painful thing in your life, how old was you brother? Leah

>>

Hi Leah,

He was 44.

Carol

[Guest guest]

What year was your brother born? I am alittle behind in e mails- please

send reply privately.

Joan

kenjoan@...

[ ] vaccines back in the 1950s

> Hi,

>

> I recently went to my brother's funeral (December) and it was a sort of

> closure of a very painful existence. However, I had hoped to find some

> answer to what happened to him, and now I feel like it is too late. He

was

> born a full term 8 lb beautiful boy. It was in an Army hospital in Rhode

> Island. Soon after, my father went off to sea and left my Mom alone in a

> strange town, in the dead of winter with her first child. She tried to

> breast feed only to learn she was given " drying up pills " not knowing what

> they were. He screamed day and night. Eventually, on the advice of her

> father, she gave him goat's milk and he had his first normal BM. He did

not

> meet milestones. He cried for hours if startled by a loud noise. He was

> fascinated by newspaper print. He never developed cognitively beyond 3

> months. No one ever offered any explanation. I lived in fear all my life

> that I would produce a child similar.

>

> What could he have gotten at 3 months that would have stopped his

> development? DPT? I also wondered about inborn errors of metabolism, but

I

> don't know if he was ever tested. My Mom's memory is not the best, and I

> don't know if I will ever have any answers now. But I wonder, and could

it

> hold the key to my son's issues?

>

> Carol G

>

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