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Listen, I’m an advanced practice nurse and my pediatrician made me feel like an IDIOT for asking if my child’s vaccines could be split up. I NEVER believed in the vaccine-autism connection, but in that moment when it was MY son, I wondered ‘what if those people who say there is a connection are right?’

So I asked if I could split them up. My pediatrician smirkingly asked me what was my concern and I lied because I KNEW she would be so smug that I was wrong if I admitted my actual concern. I told her I was worried he would have pain since I had not had a chance to give him Tylenol previously. She offered me Tylenol from her office and told me (lied) that parents who break up the shots typically don’t come back for them all (my new pediatrician says that’s the opposite of what they’ve seen).

And guess what? I let her assistant give my baby 6 or more (combined) vaccines. I’m NOT some middle school dropout, I’m an educated APRN who let myself be Belittled and Bullied from a place of genuine concern for MY child. So I would never throw a stone at you. You made a decision based on lies that other people told you that you didn’t know were lies.

How many moms would give their child anything if they knew no one had any liability for any adverse events? Answer: None of us. And that’s why they don’t want us to know.

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