Like many of you, my love for my family motivates me to do what I do. I decided to go to medical school at the age of 39 after doctors made my daughter ill by prescribing psychiatric drugs for her bladder infections. Every day I am grateful for the knowledge I obtained.
Though I always believed that it should be a parent’s right to choose if their children were vaccinated or not, I had given vaccines to my own children without a second thought. I did not, however, give them in my medical practice. I guess you could say I was sitting on the fence where vaccines were concerned.
That all changed on April 29, 1999. On that day a nurse attempted to give my newborn granddaughter a Hepatitis B vaccine. To say I was shocked would be an understatement! Hepatitis B is considered a sexually transmitted disease, or obtained from IV drug abusers. I recommended to my daughter that she decline that vaccination. A few months later that vaccine was removed from the market because of the mercury it contained and the concern about the dangers this presented to newborn infants. From that moment, this doctor and grandmother was no longer sitting on the vaccine fence. » Read more: Vaccinations – A Presentation Given to National Foundation of Women Legislators
