Friday night. I am seated on detachable couch-pillows on the floor, watching an episode of Law and Order: Special victims unit. This episode features a mother on trial for 2nd degree murder for refusing to vaccinate her 4 year old son against measles after he came in contact with a younger child, infected her and resulted to her death...
The movie credits denied the events were non fictitious, no actual resemblance to real happenings but this got me thinking about vaccinations, Child immunization and the hard choices we make for our children, for their own good.
See, the thing is, immunization visits are painful for Merit, and hard for me. For the past 4 months, we had made about 5 such visits to the hospital and for about 3 days after,Merit gets a little ill. Her temperature goes up and some times, the injected spot swells. Usually she'd gets clingy, sour and require breastfeeding every 5 minutes and the pain she feels kills me...until she gets better and gives me her signature smiles first thing every morning again:-)
For parents, taking a healthy child to get immunized against a disease she doesn't have yet with the hopes that she'll never have them,is hard (especially when this decision inconveniences or hurts her for a short time). But again, sometimes, these decisions not only prevents our kids, but others in their path of destiny as well against varied forms of infectious diseases.
Do I think every child should be immunized? Absolutely!
June 29, 2013
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