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[botias]

Reading Material: Collecting Dead Relatives Laverne Galena Moore
Our nightly bubble baths are turning into an enjoyable habit. I should have figured that spa bath tubs would produce championship level suds. Unfortunately Connor has discovered that it's really amusing to take a hand full of suds and splat them on Mom's face. Especially when she spits and sputters.
Poor Connor, he got four vaccinations yesterday. I'd put them off as long as I could because I hate to see him so upset. He's over the hump now though, I don't think he'll ever have to have more than two again. Better that than the diseases, though I wonder if I will be unlucky enough to see epidemic disease during my lifetime. AIDS only takes 1 in 100 or so odd adults. When we start talking 1 in 5 or 1 in 4, that's pain. I ran into a number of people that chose not to vaccinate, presumably due to concerns that vaccinations are linked to increased rates of autism, or vague immune disorders later in life. I would have more respect for this position if I didn't get the impression that it had more to do with intellectual smugness than any real data connecting vaccines to such disorders. As prickly as that 'blind slave to the medical establishment' paint brush is, I found that I'd rather lose a baby to a vaccine reaction than to a disease that I could have vaccinated for.
I got some hair color while I was waiting for my car. I feel lame for not taking it in sooner, like everything else in this town, the mechanic turned out to be about 2 blocks away. Make a road trip or two and next thing you know it's been 7000 miles since your last oil change. *sigh* I started to chicken out on the hair color almost as soon as I got it home, but I'll probably talk Alan into dosing me tomorrow sometime.

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

re: vaccinations - I'm not sure if it's intellectual smugness, or listening to rumour-mongering while unwilling to do one's own research. Either way, it's a pretty dippy idea, IMO, not to get your kids vaccinated. Yes, some kids have bad reactions to vaccinations; far fewer than die in car wrecks because they weren't wearing seatbelts every year, hmm? And yeah, having to deal with the needles and the screaming and the aftereffects are no fun, but compare that to dealing with your kid having whooping cough or tuberculosis or smallpox, and it's a walk in the park. I think that parents are justifying their unwillingness to "deal with vaccinations" by pretending that since hundreds of thousands of people aren't dropping dead from these diseases, that they don't need to vaccinate anymore.

The thing about "harming a kid's immune system" strikes me as utter bullshit, but I haven't done the research, so I don't have much room to argue. Then again, I seriously doubt that most parents who decide not to vaccinate their kids have done the research, either - and I don't count reading a pamphlet that was given out by Mrs. Simpson down the street with "Vaccines Kill Kids!!" in bold dripping type on the top as "research."

Anyway. So what color are you dying your hair? :)

[botias.livejournal.com]

All the anti-vaccination stuff I've read makes much of other countries who have discontinued this vaccine or other, but fail to mention that they have all reinstated the vaccines a few years later when more people were injured or killed by the diseases than by the vaccine. I find this a disturbing omission.
I don't go for the 'herbs are magical' thing either. Pharmacologically active substances are drugs whether they are synthesized by a plant or a laboratory. My midwife and I had to agree to disagree on that one. True, people-synthesized drugs could possibly contain chemical relationships that don't exist in 'nature' and which our bodies aren't able to properly detoxify. On the other hand, there are plenty of things that plants make that will toxify you in a nice, 'natural' way and I can't imagine that the dose is all that predictable.
Nothing exiting, I think it's called Nutmeg or something and it's still sitting in the medicine cabinet.