A generation of stolen children

[celticdragonfly]

I saw a link today to this: http://buggydoo.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-am-very-sad-today.html
which really struck home with me. I followed her link to this:

http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/news/rfk.pdf

Go read it. Really, read the whole thing.

It just makes me so sick and so sad. I have three children who fall into what they're describing as the "Thimerosal Generation". I've kept two of them safe. I wish I'd known more before the first one was born.

Comments

Re: Immunity curve

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

He's partly right: At any given time some vaccines may be unavailable: the most likely ones are the individual shots (such as measels) because they're used so infrequently to assist the teen/adult population.

Your local library reference department should be willing to provide this service: "Please look up and print out for me all doctors within X driving distance from Y (Y=your home addy*)" - ask them to place it w/your "holds". Then, if your mom (or another local relative/friend) is feeling incredibly generous for time she (or they) could cold-call the doctors to determine whether they'd be willing to handle an individualized immunization schedule. That's how we ended up with our pediatrician: "Not an option. Okay. You don't get our business. Next."

*I don't know how service-oriented your local librarians are: One bit of manipulation that is often effective on our breed is to rave about what a Godsend librarians are in this age of information overload and much you lurv your local library. :-)