Last Week, Moxie posted the question: What's going on with you?
SarcastiCarrie answered: My life is absolutely wonderfully fabulous right this very minute and I want to stop time right here and stay here forever and ever and ever. But, alas, that is not how life goes, so tomorrow, something will hit the fan and someone is going to the pediatrician and so on.
Well, the fates did not strike me down after that comment and the only reason Chip wound up at the pediatrician is beacause he got his first varicella vaccine at 51 weeks of age and the State says it doesn't count if it is given prior to 51 weeks 4 days (I shit you not). Never mind that his brother had chicken pox, and he didn't get it, which proves his immunity and also should count as a booster shot. He got the shot, got a sucker, got his FluMist, and we all carried on with our lives. I did not even storm the statehouse and demand they make an exception, nor did I ask for the exemption papers to decline vaccinating. I believe in herd immunity. I don't believe in the blind following of rules, but sometimes, it's just easier.
UPDATED: I forgot to mention that what brought the issue to a head was a phone call from the principal wherein she threatened to "exclude him from school until we resovle this matter". Threats. Great. I did sign a paper saying that they do NOT have my permission to give Chip's vaccination records to the state through electronic records sharing. So, whatever. It's over an done. Maybe when I am out of the throes of childrearing I will fight for commonsense vaccination programs.
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Our new pediatrician tried to bully me into getting the full set of vaccines for B at her one yr check up. It got so bad that at one point I mentioned that I was a biologist and he said something like well then you should know how important and then I told him I worked for the department of defense's vax lab outside of dc and he got all flustered and said that if I changed my mind I could always come back. Lucky for him, I was still gracious enough to joke that if my one yr old decided to start having sex or doing drugs, then I would promptly schedule her to come in and get the hep b vax. Sheesh.
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