Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How Important is Hepatitis B Vaccination at Birth?
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/02/managing-editors-note-below-is-the-story-of-iam-gromowski-a-boy-who-lived-47-days-after-his-hepatitis-b-vaccination-thank.html
See above link for full story.
Managing Editor's Note: Below is the tale of Ian Gromowski, a boy who lived 47 days after his at birth Hepatitis B vaccination. Thank you to his mom Deanna for sharing her agonizing story with us. I am proud that Age of Autism is here to publicize stories like Ian's. (And there are many more stories. I'm thinking of a darling girl in NJ named Gianna who succumbed to her vaccinations.) Autism One Radio featured Ian's story last week. Download Deanna GromowskiFINAL
Deanna and her husband have a healthy baby boy named Vance. Deanna is now battling thyroid cancer. You can read more of Ian's story here: www.iansvoice.org.
By Deanna Gromowski
There are days I cannot believe what happened to my son Ian Larsen Gromowski.
It almost seems as though it was a bad, horrible nightmare that I cannot wake up from. My name is Deanna Gromowski and I am just a mom.
I live in Wisconsin and have a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UW-Milwaukee and my husband Scott has his bachelor’s degree in Sports Management from UW-LaCrosse. I work in Human Resources and he decided to get a 2nd degree in Fire Science and is now a full-time fire fighter. We dated for 3 years and then got engaged and a year later married in Hawaii in 2005. We decided to hold off on children for the first year to enjoy married life.
We ‘did everything right in life’, we planned and prepared and educated ourselves about all our major life decisions.
Then June 25, 2007 and our son Ian was born completely healthy. Well, there was a slight mishap at birth and it is very common. Ian swallowed meconium (his stool) as he came through the birth canal. He was originally brought back to our room with us, but then the nurses noticed he was having trouble breathing.
The meconium is like tar and it was in his lungs. So Ian was admitted to the NICU, discharged the next day to our room, but yet again went back because he hadn’t worked all of the meconium out quite yet. Scott and I were worried, as new parents, who wouldn’t be, but we knew it was common and we were told this many times. Some babies need 2 to 3 weeks to work the meconium out of their lungs.
Ian was having a hard time getting this tar worked out, but you cannot imagine our JOY when the doctors told us on his 5th day of life, June 30th, 2007, that he would be able to go home. All he needed was his hearing test and his Hepatitis B vaccination.
We couldn’t wait for both of them to happen so we could go home. Looking back Scott and I get frustrated because we weren’t really given an option about the vaccine. We were told to sign a form (in which we were not given any instructions on vaccines) and I remember it seemed strange because the form we signed didn’t have an area for a parent signature, the nurse had to physically write in “Parents Signature” and “draw a line”. Hardly seems professional or right, but I signed it anyway. I look back on that form to date and still get sick to my stomach.
Ian was given his Hepatitis B vaccination on July 1st, 2007 even though he was fighting off the meconium, even though he had a fever ABOVE 100 degrees on June 30th, and even though he had a fever above 100 degrees the day of July 1st they STILL VACCINATED HIM. It states on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website this : “Some people should not get hepatitis B vaccine or should wait.
Anyone with a life-threatening allergy to baker’s yeast, or to any other component of the vaccine, should not get hepatitis B vaccine. Tell your provider if you have any severe allergies.
• Anyone who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a previous dose of hepatitis B vaccine should not get another dose.
• Anyone who is moderately or severely ill when a dose of vaccine is scheduled should probably wait until they recover before getting the vaccine. Your provider can give you more information about these precautions..”
So how are parent’s to know if their child is allergic to baker’s yeast? Do you want to just risk it? I would consider Ian moderately ill because he was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and still had a fever. Shouldn’t the experts know this information. Isn’t it there job? Well, that is all hindsight and immediately after Ian was vaccinated the following happened:
FACT: After receiving the Hepatitis B shot these symptoms also appeared:
• Platelets dropped from 248,000 to 131,000 – severe thrombocytopenia
• Scalded-like rash appeared
• Seizures noted
• Irritable, crying non-stop
• Stopped eating
• Viral-like symptoms
His pictures speak a million words. Within 12 hours of his vaccination he had the rash, within 24 hours the severe thrombocytopenia set in, and then he was in a fatal state from then on. NO DOCTORS, NURSES, STAFF would even consider the vaccination as the source.
Nothing else happened, no medicines of any kind because he was supposed to be going home! It even lists on the CDC website that 1 in 1.1 million have a severe reaction and on the Merck website it indicates that thrombocytopenia is a typical reaction of a person with a vaccine reaction. Why didn’t they know this? Why wouldn’t they consider the vaccination? It is possible. It even states so on the form from the CDC that they were SUPPOSED to give us and didn’t!!
Ian lived for 47 days. My son suffered nearly his entire life. Look at the pictures. Imagine watching your child going through this pain and not being able to do anything. No one would listen to us….we are just parents, what do we know? We didn’t leave his side for one moment. We lived at the hospital, literally. I couldn’t save my first born son, I couldn’t make the ‘ouchie’ better. I sat there day in and day out and watched this vaccination destroy his organ one at a time.
But I want you to know that Ian was an old soul. He had a peaceful presence about him. He received edema massages 2 times a day for his swelling and he loved it! The therapists said most babies in his situation do not do well with massages, but he was relaxed, peaceful, and accepting. He fought so hard. He is the strongest person Scott and I have ever met. He took our admiration to a level we didn’t know existed in the world. He was and is our little Sunshine, but more importantly he is OUR HERO.
We now are blessed with another son, Vance. Vance shares his brother’s blonde hair and has blue eyes that glisten like the sky. Vance is almost 6 months old and Vance is not vaccinated yet. Pending on the future of vaccines, we don’t know if he ever will be. Hopefully Ian’s story will touch the lives of others including people who care for children. His case is not as rare as one would think.
Ian Larsen Gromowski
June 25, 2007 - August 10, 2007
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Resided In: Brookfield Wisconsin USA
Funeral Home: Max A. Sass & Sons Funeral Home
Visitation: August 14, 2007
Service: August 14, 2007
Gromowski, Ian Larsen
Returned safely to the arms of Jesus on August 10, 2007. Precious son of Scott and Deanna Gromowski. Cherished grandson of Lawrence (Pamela) Gromowski and Gregory (Anita) Lehrkamp. Beloved great-grandson of Eugene Gromowski, Patricia Larsen and Bill Betlinski. Loving nephew of Paul (Amy) Gromowski and Melissa Waszak. Further survived by other relatives and many amazingly dear friends.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tues. Aug. 14, 7:30 PM at ST. JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1755 N. CALHOUN RD., BROOKFIELD. Visitation AT THE CHURCH on Tues. from 6 PM until time of Mass.
Special thanks to the NICU nursing staff of St. Joseph�s Hospital and Children�s Hospital. Ian was a fighter with a strong spirit. He will be forever loved and never forgotten.
Mommy and Daddy love you more than you will ever know.
You will always be our sunshine.
See above link for full story.
Managing Editor's Note: Below is the tale of Ian Gromowski, a boy who lived 47 days after his at birth Hepatitis B vaccination. Thank you to his mom Deanna for sharing her agonizing story with us. I am proud that Age of Autism is here to publicize stories like Ian's. (And there are many more stories. I'm thinking of a darling girl in NJ named Gianna who succumbed to her vaccinations.) Autism One Radio featured Ian's story last week. Download Deanna GromowskiFINAL
Deanna and her husband have a healthy baby boy named Vance. Deanna is now battling thyroid cancer. You can read more of Ian's story here: www.iansvoice.org.
By Deanna Gromowski
There are days I cannot believe what happened to my son Ian Larsen Gromowski.
It almost seems as though it was a bad, horrible nightmare that I cannot wake up from. My name is Deanna Gromowski and I am just a mom.
I live in Wisconsin and have a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UW-Milwaukee and my husband Scott has his bachelor’s degree in Sports Management from UW-LaCrosse. I work in Human Resources and he decided to get a 2nd degree in Fire Science and is now a full-time fire fighter. We dated for 3 years and then got engaged and a year later married in Hawaii in 2005. We decided to hold off on children for the first year to enjoy married life.
We ‘did everything right in life’, we planned and prepared and educated ourselves about all our major life decisions.
Then June 25, 2007 and our son Ian was born completely healthy. Well, there was a slight mishap at birth and it is very common. Ian swallowed meconium (his stool) as he came through the birth canal. He was originally brought back to our room with us, but then the nurses noticed he was having trouble breathing.
The meconium is like tar and it was in his lungs. So Ian was admitted to the NICU, discharged the next day to our room, but yet again went back because he hadn’t worked all of the meconium out quite yet. Scott and I were worried, as new parents, who wouldn’t be, but we knew it was common and we were told this many times. Some babies need 2 to 3 weeks to work the meconium out of their lungs.
Ian was having a hard time getting this tar worked out, but you cannot imagine our JOY when the doctors told us on his 5th day of life, June 30th, 2007, that he would be able to go home. All he needed was his hearing test and his Hepatitis B vaccination.
We couldn’t wait for both of them to happen so we could go home. Looking back Scott and I get frustrated because we weren’t really given an option about the vaccine. We were told to sign a form (in which we were not given any instructions on vaccines) and I remember it seemed strange because the form we signed didn’t have an area for a parent signature, the nurse had to physically write in “Parents Signature” and “draw a line”. Hardly seems professional or right, but I signed it anyway. I look back on that form to date and still get sick to my stomach.
Ian was given his Hepatitis B vaccination on July 1st, 2007 even though he was fighting off the meconium, even though he had a fever ABOVE 100 degrees on June 30th, and even though he had a fever above 100 degrees the day of July 1st they STILL VACCINATED HIM. It states on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website this : “Some people should not get hepatitis B vaccine or should wait.
Anyone with a life-threatening allergy to baker’s yeast, or to any other component of the vaccine, should not get hepatitis B vaccine. Tell your provider if you have any severe allergies.
• Anyone who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a previous dose of hepatitis B vaccine should not get another dose.
• Anyone who is moderately or severely ill when a dose of vaccine is scheduled should probably wait until they recover before getting the vaccine. Your provider can give you more information about these precautions..”
So how are parent’s to know if their child is allergic to baker’s yeast? Do you want to just risk it? I would consider Ian moderately ill because he was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and still had a fever. Shouldn’t the experts know this information. Isn’t it there job? Well, that is all hindsight and immediately after Ian was vaccinated the following happened:
FACT: After receiving the Hepatitis B shot these symptoms also appeared:
• Platelets dropped from 248,000 to 131,000 – severe thrombocytopenia
• Scalded-like rash appeared
• Seizures noted
• Irritable, crying non-stop
• Stopped eating
• Viral-like symptoms
His pictures speak a million words. Within 12 hours of his vaccination he had the rash, within 24 hours the severe thrombocytopenia set in, and then he was in a fatal state from then on. NO DOCTORS, NURSES, STAFF would even consider the vaccination as the source.
Nothing else happened, no medicines of any kind because he was supposed to be going home! It even lists on the CDC website that 1 in 1.1 million have a severe reaction and on the Merck website it indicates that thrombocytopenia is a typical reaction of a person with a vaccine reaction. Why didn’t they know this? Why wouldn’t they consider the vaccination? It is possible. It even states so on the form from the CDC that they were SUPPOSED to give us and didn’t!!
Ian lived for 47 days. My son suffered nearly his entire life. Look at the pictures. Imagine watching your child going through this pain and not being able to do anything. No one would listen to us….we are just parents, what do we know? We didn’t leave his side for one moment. We lived at the hospital, literally. I couldn’t save my first born son, I couldn’t make the ‘ouchie’ better. I sat there day in and day out and watched this vaccination destroy his organ one at a time.
But I want you to know that Ian was an old soul. He had a peaceful presence about him. He received edema massages 2 times a day for his swelling and he loved it! The therapists said most babies in his situation do not do well with massages, but he was relaxed, peaceful, and accepting. He fought so hard. He is the strongest person Scott and I have ever met. He took our admiration to a level we didn’t know existed in the world. He was and is our little Sunshine, but more importantly he is OUR HERO.
We now are blessed with another son, Vance. Vance shares his brother’s blonde hair and has blue eyes that glisten like the sky. Vance is almost 6 months old and Vance is not vaccinated yet. Pending on the future of vaccines, we don’t know if he ever will be. Hopefully Ian’s story will touch the lives of others including people who care for children. His case is not as rare as one would think.
Ian Larsen Gromowski
June 25, 2007 - August 10, 2007
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Resided In: Brookfield Wisconsin USA
Funeral Home: Max A. Sass & Sons Funeral Home
Visitation: August 14, 2007
Service: August 14, 2007
Gromowski, Ian Larsen
Returned safely to the arms of Jesus on August 10, 2007. Precious son of Scott and Deanna Gromowski. Cherished grandson of Lawrence (Pamela) Gromowski and Gregory (Anita) Lehrkamp. Beloved great-grandson of Eugene Gromowski, Patricia Larsen and Bill Betlinski. Loving nephew of Paul (Amy) Gromowski and Melissa Waszak. Further survived by other relatives and many amazingly dear friends.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tues. Aug. 14, 7:30 PM at ST. JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1755 N. CALHOUN RD., BROOKFIELD. Visitation AT THE CHURCH on Tues. from 6 PM until time of Mass.
Special thanks to the NICU nursing staff of St. Joseph�s Hospital and Children�s Hospital. Ian was a fighter with a strong spirit. He will be forever loved and never forgotten.
Mommy and Daddy love you more than you will ever know.
You will always be our sunshine.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Criminal!!!
Who is the Bernie Madoff of Vaccines?
By Kim Stagliano
Vaccines are the new black. No, that's not right. Wait, let me think. Vaccines are the new green. There. That's better! Bloomberg (the business folks) reports candidly how vaccines have become "blockbusters" and provide a steady source of income not dependent on patent protection and the perfect customer known as "the government." Boy, get your AAP to pop a new vax onto the pediatric schedule and you're golden! So are your pockets. “Who would have thought that vaccines would be blockbusters?” Poussot asked at an investor meeting in New York yesterday before the deal was reported. “Five years ago, nobody believed that a vaccine could ever do that, but we have been able to do that with Prevnar.” Vaccines make money. A lot of it. Don't think for a second that the Paul Offit's of the world are solely interested in your health. Money = corruption. Bernie Madoff ring a bell?
From Bloomberg HERE.
...Wyeth Chief Executive Officer Bernard Poussot has focused the company’s research on vaccines, a dependable source of sales for drugmakers because they don’t lose patent protection and are often purchased by governments. Poussot turned Wyeth’s pneumonia vaccine Prevnar into its second best-selling product with $2.4 billion in 2007 revenue.
‘Blockbuster’ Vaccines
Wyeth and rival drugmakers are looking for acquisitions as $84 billion worth of their prescription products are scheduled to lose patent protection by 2013. Wyeth is the world’s fourth- richest drugmaker, with $14.1 billion in cash and short-term assets as of Sept. 30, according to data complied by Bloomberg.
Wyeth’s top-selling Effexor depression pill, with $3.8 billion in 2007 sales, will get generic competition next year. The company is trying to reduce its dependence on pharmaceuticals and plans to reap 75 percent of its revenue by 2012 from biotechnology medicines, vaccines, over-the-counter treatments and animal products, Poussot has said.
Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism.
By Kim Stagliano
Vaccines are the new black. No, that's not right. Wait, let me think. Vaccines are the new green. There. That's better! Bloomberg (the business folks) reports candidly how vaccines have become "blockbusters" and provide a steady source of income not dependent on patent protection and the perfect customer known as "the government." Boy, get your AAP to pop a new vax onto the pediatric schedule and you're golden! So are your pockets. “Who would have thought that vaccines would be blockbusters?” Poussot asked at an investor meeting in New York yesterday before the deal was reported. “Five years ago, nobody believed that a vaccine could ever do that, but we have been able to do that with Prevnar.” Vaccines make money. A lot of it. Don't think for a second that the Paul Offit's of the world are solely interested in your health. Money = corruption. Bernie Madoff ring a bell?
From Bloomberg HERE.
...Wyeth Chief Executive Officer Bernard Poussot has focused the company’s research on vaccines, a dependable source of sales for drugmakers because they don’t lose patent protection and are often purchased by governments. Poussot turned Wyeth’s pneumonia vaccine Prevnar into its second best-selling product with $2.4 billion in 2007 revenue.
‘Blockbuster’ Vaccines
Wyeth and rival drugmakers are looking for acquisitions as $84 billion worth of their prescription products are scheduled to lose patent protection by 2013. Wyeth is the world’s fourth- richest drugmaker, with $14.1 billion in cash and short-term assets as of Sept. 30, according to data complied by Bloomberg.
Wyeth’s top-selling Effexor depression pill, with $3.8 billion in 2007 sales, will get generic competition next year. The company is trying to reduce its dependence on pharmaceuticals and plans to reap 75 percent of its revenue by 2012 from biotechnology medicines, vaccines, over-the-counter treatments and animal products, Poussot has said.
Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Vaccines
DTaP
How much thimerosal is in this vaccine?
How many cases of tetanus do you encounter?
Can you give me a 100% guarantee that giving my child diphtheria, tetanus and Pertussis will give them immunity to the diseases?
Hepatitis B
How is my child at risk if I'm not infected with hepatitis b?
How many cases of this disease have you seen in which the patient was not immunized and did not recover?
How much thimerosal is in this vaccine?
Isn't there human aborted fetal tissue in this vaccine according to the package insert?
Hib
Isn't there 25 mcg of thimerosal in this vaccine?
Isn't this the virus that CDC says is known to cause bacterial meningitis in children?
Can you guarantee me that my child will not come down with bacterial meningitis from this vaccine later down the road?
Pneumococcal
Isn't there 25 mcg of thimerosal in this vaccine?
Can you guarantee me that my child will not come down with Pneumonia after the vaccination?
Polio
Isn't this the vaccine known to carry the herpes virus which also causes bacterial meningitis?
Can you guarantee me that this does not have any thimerosal in it?
Can you guarantee me that the cancer causing SV40 monkey virus is not a contaminant of this vaccine?
Can you guarantee me that there are absolutely NO contaminants in the vaccine?
Meningococcal
I read in a package insert for the Prevnar, that of children inoculated with this vaccine for the controlled study, 21+ died of SIDS.
Can you guarantee me that this vaccine did not contribute to those SIDS cases or is not a threat for my child after this inoculation?
Can you guarantee me that this vaccine will not contribute to meningitis later down the road for my child?
CDC says meningitis has resulted in encephalitis (an infection of the brain).
Can you guarantee this will not be a future case as a result of this vaccine?
MMR
What is the guarantee that the MMR will not contribute to any future onset of autism?
The vaccine measles, mumps and rubella strains are found in the spinal fluid, blood brain barrier and colon of autistic children.
Can you guarantee me that this will not be a problem?
CDC says mumps contribute to bacterial meningitis.
What's the guarantee this will not be a future case after the vaccination?
CDC says the MEASLES is grown on chicken embryos known to carry the avian leukemia.
What's the guarantee this will not be an introduction to future leukemia?
Influenza
Aren't the 3 viruses in this vaccine mutations of years past?
Will this keep away infection of the this year's influenza virus?
Does this vaccine have 25 mcg of thimerosal?
CDC says the viruses in this vaccine were grown on chicken embryos known to carry the avian leukemia.
What's the guarantee that this vaccine is not an introduction to future leukemia?
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Isn't thimerosal used in the manufacturing and left in the vaccine so that the vaccine does not have to be produced in a sterile environment? Isn't this also to keep any possible contaminants from multiplying and or mutating?
You must know what the safe level of thimerosal injection is for my child, WHAT IS IT?
Can you guarantee me that all the thimerosal in the vaccines will not contribute to any neurological diseases in the future?
Do you have the studies proving that the human aborted fetal tissues in the vaccines will not hybridize and or mutate, thus cause further health consequences later in life?
What is the guarantee that my child will not suffer anaphylactic shock or cardiac arrest after vaccination?
What is the guarantee that my child will not suffer seizures or convulsions at any time after vaccination?
Can you give me a 100% guarantee of the safety and efficacy of these vaccines for my child?
Who will be held responsible if my child is to suffer cardiac arrest, anaphylactic shock, seizures, convulsions, epilepsy and some of the other known adverse reactions to vaccines stated by CDC? Will I be able to hold you legally responsible?
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Welcome To Beirut
WELCOME TO BEIRUT by Susan F. Rzucidlo
(Beginner's Guide to Autism)
"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with
autism-to try and help people who have not shared in that unique
experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like
this.."
There you are, happy in your life, one or two little ones at your
feet. Life is complete and good. One of the children is a little
different than the other but of course, he's like your in-laws, and
you did marry into the family. It can't be all that bad. One day
someone comes up from behind you and throws a black bag over your
head. They start kicking you in the stomach and trying to tear your
heart out. You are terrified, kicking and screaming you struggle to
get away but there are too many of them, they overpower you and stuff
you into a trunk of a car. Bruised and dazed, you don't know where
you are. What's going to happen to you? Will you live through this?
This is the day you get the diagnosis. "YOUR CHILD HAS AUTISM"!
There you are in Beirut, dropped in the middle of a war. You don't
know the language and you don't know what is going on. Bombs are
dropping "Life long diagnosis" and "Neurologically impaired". Bullets
whiz by "refrigerator mother" " A good smack is all HE needs to
straighten up". Your adrenaline races as the clock ticks away your
child's chances for "recovery". You sure as heck didn't sign up for
this and want out NOW! God has over estimated your abilities.
Unfortunately, there is no one to send your resignation to. You've
done everything right in your life, well you tried, well, you weren't
caught too often. Hey! you've never even heard of autism before. You
look around and everything looks the same, but different. Your family
is the same, your child is the same, but now he has a label and you
have a case worker assigned to your family. She'll call you soon. You
feel like a lab rat dropped into a maze.
Just as you start to get the first one figured out ( early
intervention) they drop you into a larger more complex one (school).
Never to be out done, there is always the medical intervention maze.
That one is almost never completed.
There is always some new "miracle" drug out there. It helps some
kids, will it help yours? You will find some if the greatest folks in
the world are doing the same maze you are, maybe on another level but
a special-ed maze just the same. Tapping into those folks is a great
life line to help you get through the day. This really sucks but hey,
there are still good times to be had. WARNING! You do develop and odd
sense of humor. Every so often you get hit by a bullet or bomb not
enough to kill you, only enough to leave a gaping wound. Your child
regresses for no apparent reason, and it feels like a kick in the
stomach. Some bully makes fun of your kid and your heart aches.
You're excluded from activities and functions because of your child
and you cry. Your other children are embarrassed to be around your
disabled child and you sigh. You're insurance company refuses to
provide therapies for "chronic, life long conditions" and your blood
pressure goes up. Your arm aches from holding onto the phone with yet
another bureaucrat or doctor or therapist who holds the power to
improve or destroy the quality of your child's life with the stroke
of a pen. You're exhausted because your child doesn't sleep.
And yet, hope springs eternal.
Yes there is hope. There ARE new medications. There IS research going
on. There are interventions that help. Thank God for all those who
fought so hard before you came along. Your child will make progress.
When he speaks for the first time, maybe not until he is 8 yrs old,
your heart will soar. You will know that you have experienced a
miracle and you will rejoice. The smallest improvement will look like
a huge leap to you. You will marvel at typical development and
realize how amazing it is. You will know sorrow like few others and
yet you will know joy above joy. You will meet dirty faced angels on
playgrounds who are kind to your child without being told to be.
There will be a few nurses and doctors who treat your child with
respect and who will show you concern and love like few others.
Knowing eyes will meet yours in restaurants and malls, they'll
understand, they are living through similar times. For those people
you will be forever grateful. Don't get me wrong. This is war and its
awful. There are no discharges and when you are gone someone else
will have to fight in your place.
But, there are lulls in wars, times when the bullets aren't flying
and bombs aren't dropping. Flowers are seen and picked. Life long
friendships are forged. You share and odd kinship with people from
all walks of life. Good times are had, and because we know how bad
the bad times are, the good times are even better. Life is good but
your life in never normal again, but hey, what fun is normal.
(Beginner's Guide to Autism)
"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with
autism-to try and help people who have not shared in that unique
experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like
this.."
There you are, happy in your life, one or two little ones at your
feet. Life is complete and good. One of the children is a little
different than the other but of course, he's like your in-laws, and
you did marry into the family. It can't be all that bad. One day
someone comes up from behind you and throws a black bag over your
head. They start kicking you in the stomach and trying to tear your
heart out. You are terrified, kicking and screaming you struggle to
get away but there are too many of them, they overpower you and stuff
you into a trunk of a car. Bruised and dazed, you don't know where
you are. What's going to happen to you? Will you live through this?
This is the day you get the diagnosis. "YOUR CHILD HAS AUTISM"!
There you are in Beirut, dropped in the middle of a war. You don't
know the language and you don't know what is going on. Bombs are
dropping "Life long diagnosis" and "Neurologically impaired". Bullets
whiz by "refrigerator mother" " A good smack is all HE needs to
straighten up". Your adrenaline races as the clock ticks away your
child's chances for "recovery". You sure as heck didn't sign up for
this and want out NOW! God has over estimated your abilities.
Unfortunately, there is no one to send your resignation to. You've
done everything right in your life, well you tried, well, you weren't
caught too often. Hey! you've never even heard of autism before. You
look around and everything looks the same, but different. Your family
is the same, your child is the same, but now he has a label and you
have a case worker assigned to your family. She'll call you soon. You
feel like a lab rat dropped into a maze.
Just as you start to get the first one figured out ( early
intervention) they drop you into a larger more complex one (school).
Never to be out done, there is always the medical intervention maze.
That one is almost never completed.
There is always some new "miracle" drug out there. It helps some
kids, will it help yours? You will find some if the greatest folks in
the world are doing the same maze you are, maybe on another level but
a special-ed maze just the same. Tapping into those folks is a great
life line to help you get through the day. This really sucks but hey,
there are still good times to be had. WARNING! You do develop and odd
sense of humor. Every so often you get hit by a bullet or bomb not
enough to kill you, only enough to leave a gaping wound. Your child
regresses for no apparent reason, and it feels like a kick in the
stomach. Some bully makes fun of your kid and your heart aches.
You're excluded from activities and functions because of your child
and you cry. Your other children are embarrassed to be around your
disabled child and you sigh. You're insurance company refuses to
provide therapies for "chronic, life long conditions" and your blood
pressure goes up. Your arm aches from holding onto the phone with yet
another bureaucrat or doctor or therapist who holds the power to
improve or destroy the quality of your child's life with the stroke
of a pen. You're exhausted because your child doesn't sleep.
And yet, hope springs eternal.
Yes there is hope. There ARE new medications. There IS research going
on. There are interventions that help. Thank God for all those who
fought so hard before you came along. Your child will make progress.
When he speaks for the first time, maybe not until he is 8 yrs old,
your heart will soar. You will know that you have experienced a
miracle and you will rejoice. The smallest improvement will look like
a huge leap to you. You will marvel at typical development and
realize how amazing it is. You will know sorrow like few others and
yet you will know joy above joy. You will meet dirty faced angels on
playgrounds who are kind to your child without being told to be.
There will be a few nurses and doctors who treat your child with
respect and who will show you concern and love like few others.
Knowing eyes will meet yours in restaurants and malls, they'll
understand, they are living through similar times. For those people
you will be forever grateful. Don't get me wrong. This is war and its
awful. There are no discharges and when you are gone someone else
will have to fight in your place.
But, there are lulls in wars, times when the bullets aren't flying
and bombs aren't dropping. Flowers are seen and picked. Life long
friendships are forged. You share and odd kinship with people from
all walks of life. Good times are had, and because we know how bad
the bad times are, the good times are even better. Life is good but
your life in never normal again, but hey, what fun is normal.
CDC Hiding The Facts
Dr. Shiv Chopra, as a vaccine and drug regulator for Health Canada for nearly forty years, evaluated every red-hot topic in public health. He tried, sometimes successfully, to protect the public from ineffective and harmful vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, carcinogenic antibiotics and hormones used in food-producing animals, and agricultural practices that promote Mad Cow Disease.
Unsurprisingly, he was fired from Health Canada in 2004 for “insubordination” -- in other words, refusing to bow to corporate and government pressure to give a pass to unsafe substances. Dr. Chopra has now written a book, Corrupt to the Core, about his decades of struggle to have the law recognized as being above political policy.
Chopra observes that despite vaccinations, some childhood diseases are appearing with increasing frequency in the very populations that have been vaccinated for several generations. He finds it alarming that “the list of vaccines being administered to young children has been enlarged to include many more viral and bacterial infections with little or no scientific rationale.”
The U.S. Center for Disease Control continues to argue that 36,000 people die annually of the flu, even though available statistics show that the true number is less than 100. Meanwhile, current research has shown that merely increasing vitamin D levels reduces the incidence of the flu by more than 70 percent.
Vaccination programs whose scientific basis is so flawed as to border on the absurd include Tamiflu, which has been discontinued in Japan because of so many deaths from sudden serious psychiatric disorders, and Gardasil, which during the first year of its use has resulted in more than 3,500 adverse events, more than any vaccine in history. Gardasil contains a whopping 675 micrograms of toxic aluminum, and one of the scientists who developed it, Diane M. Harper, warned that the vaccine had never been tested on young girls before it was released for widespread use by them.
Perhaps the worst is MMR, which supposedly provides immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella. More than 4,900 U.S. families have filed lawsuits after their children became autistic within days of getting this shot.
A second area of concern in Dr. Chopra’s career was bacterial antibiotic resistance, which is wholly avoidable and caused solely by use of antibiotics in food-producing animals and the reckless over-prescribing habits of doctors. There are currently entire classes of antibiotics that should not even be on the market; Dr. Chopra fought vigorously and unsuccessfully to keep Baytril and Revelor-H off the market. They were finally banned more than a decade after his warnings because of the undeniable harm they caused.
Sources:
Vitality Magazine April 2008
Unsurprisingly, he was fired from Health Canada in 2004 for “insubordination” -- in other words, refusing to bow to corporate and government pressure to give a pass to unsafe substances. Dr. Chopra has now written a book, Corrupt to the Core, about his decades of struggle to have the law recognized as being above political policy.
Chopra observes that despite vaccinations, some childhood diseases are appearing with increasing frequency in the very populations that have been vaccinated for several generations. He finds it alarming that “the list of vaccines being administered to young children has been enlarged to include many more viral and bacterial infections with little or no scientific rationale.”
The U.S. Center for Disease Control continues to argue that 36,000 people die annually of the flu, even though available statistics show that the true number is less than 100. Meanwhile, current research has shown that merely increasing vitamin D levels reduces the incidence of the flu by more than 70 percent.
Vaccination programs whose scientific basis is so flawed as to border on the absurd include Tamiflu, which has been discontinued in Japan because of so many deaths from sudden serious psychiatric disorders, and Gardasil, which during the first year of its use has resulted in more than 3,500 adverse events, more than any vaccine in history. Gardasil contains a whopping 675 micrograms of toxic aluminum, and one of the scientists who developed it, Diane M. Harper, warned that the vaccine had never been tested on young girls before it was released for widespread use by them.
Perhaps the worst is MMR, which supposedly provides immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella. More than 4,900 U.S. families have filed lawsuits after their children became autistic within days of getting this shot.
A second area of concern in Dr. Chopra’s career was bacterial antibiotic resistance, which is wholly avoidable and caused solely by use of antibiotics in food-producing animals and the reckless over-prescribing habits of doctors. There are currently entire classes of antibiotics that should not even be on the market; Dr. Chopra fought vigorously and unsuccessfully to keep Baytril and Revelor-H off the market. They were finally banned more than a decade after his warnings because of the undeniable harm they caused.
Sources:
Vitality Magazine April 2008
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