"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:44:45 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:56:08 -0500, Janet Wilder >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 10/30/2014 4:19 PM, sf wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:46:07 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> >> > >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On 10/30/2014 11:15 AM, sf wrote:
>> >> >>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:58:37 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> >> >>> > wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> How in the world can you say that? The Dr. said they now know
>> >> >>>> that
>> >> >>>> the
>> >> >>>> vaccine isn't very effective. She still got sick. She still
>> >> >>>> could
>> >> >>>> have
>> >> >>>> died. I didn't improve her chances of anything!
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> The flu vaccine isn't 100% effective either, but it will help
>> >> >>> diminish
>> >> >>> the effect of the flu if you do get one that you were vaccinated
>> >> >>> against.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The shingles vaccine is only 60% effective. Don't ask me how I
>> >> >> know.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm not one to say, well it doesn't work 100% so I won't get the
>> >> > vaccine. I'm hoping whatever effectiveness it has works it's
>> >> > miracle
>> >> > on me if/when I ever come down with shingles.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I probably had a much lighter case because of the vaccine.
>> >
>> > I wish Julie could understand that point whooping cough!
>>
>> Well if hers was a lighter case then I wouldn't want to see a full blown
>> one! She would just keep coughing until she threw up and many times I
>> had
>> to check on her to see if she was still breathing.
>
> I think you're lucky if all that happened was she threw up.

Of course that wasn't all that happened. She ran a fever, got dehydrated
because she couldn't keep down any food and drink. Had a hell of a time
catching up at school because she missed so many days. I actually forced
her to go while sick because the Drs. kept telling us that it was just a
virus. So she had exposed many people to it for weeks. I think it was
about 3 weeks into it when she was finally diagnosed. Then I think that was
when she had to go to the ER because of a reaction to the meds that she was
on. So more school missed due to gastritis. I'm sure there was more to it.
I just remember having to clean up all the vomit. Any time we had to go out
in my van, she held a bowl in her lap and we lined her lap and the floor
with underpads. She mainly stayed on the couch or in bed on a pile of
underpads with a bowl. That was 3 years ago so I can't remember all of the
details now.