H1N1 Flu

I am up tonight keeping a close eye on my baby boy Aidan, he is the sweetest and most lovable little guy you will ever meet, but Aidan is autistic and isn’t very good on letting us know how he feels. When he does get sick it is hard for us to gauge how sick he is because he doesn’t complain at all, he just moves a little slower.  Fevers are a touchy subject with me as I had a terrifying experience when my daughter Kaydence had a febrile seizure a few years ago, I had no idea what was happening to her and was convinced that she was dying in my arms and there was nothing I could do… Thankfully she recovered,  But the event is permanently etched in my mind and I do not want to repeat it.  Tonight Aidan’s fever spiked to 103.5  so I had to put him in a bath… For some reason Aidan’s body functions do not always work like they are supposed to.  Normally when you have a fever your blood vessels in your arms and legs will dilate and will help cool you off.  When Aidan has a fever his arms and legs will sometimes be cool or normal temperature, but his chest and head will be burning up with fever.  Because of that it is really important to cool him down and keep him cool.  It is really heart breaking though because he is freezing to death and shivering from the fever and I am steadily pouring lukewarm water over his body.  I try to hold him and comfort him but he completely does not understand why I have put him in a bath in the middle of the night!  and all he can say is … “cold” through chattering teeth..

So after everything has calmed down and his fever is under control I have started thinking about immunizations… I know a lot of parents are avoiding the H1N1 Flu vaccine,  What it boils down to is that whether it’s true or not, we don’t know if we can trust the medical profession anymore to tell us the truth about medicine, I have personally stood face to face with a doctor and cornered him about what a medication actually does and he actually could not tell me. Sure he could give me a BS answer that would satisfy the average person. But my mom carries around a Physicians Desk Reference in her purse!  as a kid we never took anything without mom checking all the drug interactions and researching it fully!

There is more than a little stir about the possibility that vaccinations are causing autism,  something that Aidan has brought right to the forefront.  And we can absolutely confirm that Aidan’s development halted soon after his first set of vaccinations; many other parents can confirm similar experiences and I am pretty convinced this is more than anecdotal. So is the medical community ignoring this for financial reasons?   I have always been a strong proponent of “if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger” mentality.   I believe that if we allow our immune system to work for us and avoid antibiotics, or vaccinations unless absolutely necessary  then ultimately we will be healthier and more resistant to illness.   I have to say  that from our perspective it seems to be working,  our kids are pretty tough and get over colds and even the Flu in 2-3 days tops.

when I first heard about the H1N1 “swine flu” for some reason I was immediately suspicious,  call me a conspiracy theorist but these days ethics are unpopular, biological experimentation is done in basements, and there is a lot of money floating around for biotech these days… It just seems like we are primed for a good conspiracy!   it just seemed contrived that the hype around H1N1 was a little over the top… no ALOT over the top, considering that it is not even as bad as the seasonal Flu.  Then to cap it off some biotech lab in australia created the vaccine in record time?  seems a little fishy.

So how do you feel about vaccinations..    are they really helping us?  are  you getting the H1N1 vaccine?  are you giving this to your kids?   I am on the fence with this one… I would really like to avoid any more fevers but I also don’t want to go running for the drug store any time the wind blows.

(*Edit* I realized after I wrote this that at 3:00 in the morning that it is not a great time to write a blog post    it is very similar to “drunk blogging” in most respects.  Anyways, I freely mixed conversation about “booster immunizations” for babies and “Flu Vaccines” and really  did not distinguish between the two.  In general I was mostly speaking about the Flu Vaccines rather than the baby booster shots.  hope that clarifies things a bit! )