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Did they get the Hep B at birth? Do you have any mercury amalgam dental

fillings? Live downstream of a coal-fired power plant?

S S

" Did us in " is right. I'm not really sure the twins had any other

source of mercury.

I got the flu shot in pregnancy (seven months) I think. Then our son

got one during the " flu shot shortage " of '04. I also shudder to

think of it. We thought we were helping him because he'd had

bronchiolitis and was on albuteral for the wheezes, which made the

doc recommend him for those " few last available flu shots " . If only

we'd had either a less " caring " doc or a more informed one. Good

Lord.

Our daughter didn't get a flu shot(s) until a year old, when our son

got ANOTHER ROUND. That was two rounds of flu shots within six

months of each other. He reacted almost immediately and our

daughter's response was more subtle. Our son stopped smiling, seemed

terribly sad and droopy. Everyone thought he looked soulful and

handsome like that and I was freaking out completely. I thought I

had emotionally scarred him in some unknown way and began taking him

on special walks and buying new toys for both twins, etc.. Then he

seemed to perk up and began doing the " eye thingy " of looking at

things by rolling his eyes back into his head. That little quirk

also faded- until (gulp) the next flu shot round at the age of two.

The pediatrician we had at the time would sometimes tell us of

stupid medical policies that he was skeptical of and would warn us

about certain things to avoid, so I suspect he had NO idea what

thimerosal could do. It's very sad. He had boy-girl twins, too and

raised them attachment-parenting style, encouraging us to do

extended b-feeding and to adopt the " family bed " , which we did.

Then, very soon after " Evidence of Harm " came out in 2005 (we didn't

hear of the book until this year, unfortunately, though it would

have come out just after the twins' last flu shot anyway), this ped

suddenly closed his practice and went to work for the *prison

system*. Seriously. I think he's the type who would have forced

himself to read the book and we've sometimes imagined that he had a

nervous breakdown.

Are we p.o.'ed that he didn't offer his own head on a platter by

writing " sue me " postcards to all his pediatric clients? I don't

know. We don't think about it much. It's the drug companies, it's

the government agencies, it's the flu shot and vaccine lobbyists and

paid mouth-pieces. It's the docs who stayed in business long after

the evidence of harm became clear enough to give pause.

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