And my personal experience prompts me to vaccinate my children and myself. After all, anecdotes are the anti-vaccine supporter’s way. But when facts and evidence-based science aren’t good enough to sway someone’s opinion, then this is where I come from. A friend’s brother died from meningitis.Īnecdotal evidence is nothing to base decisions on. I have a partially sighted friend who contracted rubella in the womb. I have friends who became deaf from measles. If this is the case, I struggle to understand why I know far more people who have experienced complications from preventable childhood illnesses than I have EVER met with complications from vaccines. I find myself wondering about the claim that complications from childhood illnesses are extremely rare but that “vaccine injuries” are rampant. Not to the same extent as I did, though, as I was not quite as strict as my mother, but they are both healthier than I have ever been. They too grew up on a healthy diet, homegrown organics etc. My kids have had no childhood illnesses other than chickenpox, which they both contracted while still breastfeeding. My two vaccinated children, on the other hand, have rarely been ill, have had antibiotics maybe twice in their lives, if that (not like me who got so many illnesses which needed treatment with antibiotics that I developed a resistance to them, which led me to be hospitalized with penicillin-resistant quinsy at 21–you know that old fashioned disease that killed Queen Elizabeth I and which was almost wiped out through use of antibiotics). And you know what? I’m glad she gave us the great diet that we had, I’m glad that she cared about us in that way.īut it just didn’t stop me from getting childhood illnesses. She didn’t drink, she didn’t smoke, she didn’t do drugs and we certainly weren’t allowed to watch whatever we wanted on telly or wear plastic shoes or any of that stuff. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time? My mother was the biggest health freak around–she would put most of my current “crunchy” friends to shame. So having the “natural immunity sterilised out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”Īs healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable.
I wasn’t even allowed pop even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids. I had an outdoor lifestyle I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar til I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame.
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