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Originally posted by lumberjim
Shelby and I have the awesome and sometimes confusing responsibility of choosing the best path for our childrens' health and well being. Among other things. If you thought the risks of the vaccine outweighed the chance of your child dying from the diseases they want to vaccinate him/her from, then you might find cause for concern.
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Well, no technically we don't have any reason for concern as a parent would, however, I am guessing that if we did have a child, we would go ahead and vaccinate that child. Considering that I know about weighing the pros and cons of certain treatments and medications, I'd err on the side of preventing catching the disease
WITH the knowledge of the *possible* side effects of the vaccination.
For instance, do I continue to stay on peritoneal dialysis and risk my health slowly deteriorating to nothing, multiple hospital stays, interference with life in general, or do I get the transplant, and run the risk of catching god knows what from the
immunosuppressants lowering my immune system, run the risk of cancer and the other side effects? Basically, I'm going to trade off one set of circumstances for another. IMO, either choice is a no "win" situation, because something is bound to happen negatively either way. Nothing is guaranteed.
Same with vaccinations, IMO. Either you vaccinate the child and run the risk of the side effects (yes, even death), or do nothing, and run the risk of the child catching something and *possibly* dying from that.
That's just how I see it.