Why vaccinate?

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I have to get this out or I will burst.

I vaccinate so that my children don't kill anyone. My children are strong enough to withstand most of the illnesses against which they have been vaccinated, lucky me. This is why I vaccinated - if they were weak, I might have thought twice.

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[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

T has had most of his vaccinations but has not had the MMR but not actually because I didn't want him to have it. Round here the procedure is that they send you an appointment from a central department and if you can't keep it you ring the surgery who have no power to make an alternative appointment they can just cancel the oringial one. The first appointment they sent T was in hospital with a chest infection, the second he was in hospital with gastro (his two only hospital admissions) and the third appointment he had a hospital appointment that we'd been waiting months for. Then they stopped sending them. I'm told that if we now ask at the surgery they should be able to make the appointments as it's out of the "routine".

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

He's now had his "pre-school" booster vaccinations and after a discussion with the nurse about the fact he hadn't had MMR he's had the first dose and will go back just before Christmas for the second dose. Which means he's pretty well caught up since "pre-school" booster vaccinations are anywhere between 3yrs 4months and 5 yrs.