Sigh of frustration

Of course if I am a good parent I would give my child a shot to sop them from getting sick, right? I guess if I truly believed the shot was safe, OF COURSE. Why do these doctors think we don't get shots for our kids? Do they really think we have seen Jenny McCarthy and just blindly follow her because she is a celebrity? You must be kidding me. Celebrity makes you different in one way from others, and that is you have a captive audience. Any celebrity mother is just like any other mother.

So, what is the lesser of two evils? Many parents believe the few minutes of pain associated with the shots is totally worth the supposed life long immunity to illnesses. Yes, that sounds great. But what if the shot caused more. What would be too much to risk. What if the doctor said you had a 1 in 100,000 chance of your child having a seizure. Or 1 in 1000. Or that having that seizure made them prone to another by more than 50% and that 1% of those develop life long seizures? Or death? Or mental degeneration to varying degrees from minor, slow and chronically degenerative to severe and debilitating? What would the statistic have to be to stop YOU? 1 in 6 kids have a neurological disorder. Is this because it wasn't recognized in the past? Did kids act like this when you were a child? maybe 1 or 2 in the whole school? 1 or 2 in your class? How about half the kids in your class? Did everyone sit quietly and work fairly well or was there one kid that couldn't? 10 kids that couldn't? I think they are full of crap. Is it environmental? Is it nutritional? Is it the shots? Is it our shots we got? Is it what we were exposed to? There are so many questions and I don't think they are even LOOKING at them. Which makes me think why. Why does a person stop asking questions? Because they know the answer.

So, I found a shirt on Cafe Press that says "do you feel lucky" with a syringe. I think I will get one and I think I will start wearing the white/black/white ribbon. Because this issue isn't so black and white is it?