Here's another!

Eat well, rest well, sleep well, be well and so will your baby. Enough meddling from the medical community! The more the pharmaceutical industry pumps into us the weaker our natural immune system seems to get.

To which I responded:

"Jessie, vaccines save lies. Period. Fact. Do you know anyone who's had polio? Do you know anyone who's had scarlet fever? Because I don't. We've forgotten how heart-breaking and deadly those diseases are, because no one gets them any more. Because vaccines.

"Pertussis is making a comeback because of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children fully. Fact.

"And those of you who've never gotten a shot but never gotten the flu, I'd like to gently suggest that herd immunity may play a factor in that. In other words, all the people who do get their flu shots help protect those who don't.

"Yes, I'm passionate about this issue. I find it disheartening that so much misinformation and speculation and personal "anecdata" (IOW, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data") outweighs decades of proven science. And it puts us all at risk."

Umm, if she is pregnant she isn't exactly nursing yet.

Ginger, I hope the ick passes quickly.

On odd medical stuff, I was doing a walk through at a customer site a couple days ago and we went into each of the 10 exam rooms to see where we were going to install equipment and so forth. The office manager hit the hand sanitizer every time we entered one of the rooms, sometimes on the way out too. It amused me because it was clearly such a routine she didn't even know she was doing it. Office was closed, no patients, etc. Just a reflex reaction. Kill dem germs.

I was MISERABLE when I got flu, TDAP and pneumonia the same day.

Seconding that. Never again. space out the vaccination schedule.

Because vaccines

Which is honestly an even better reason than "because wine."

Ginger, I hope you feel better soon.

My mom had polio. Because no vaccine.

I was very, very sick with measles. I wouldn't wish measles on anyone.

I had pertussis because I worked with 1st graders and it is RIDICULOUSLY easy to get a vaccine waiver in the state of Michigan.

But Washington State, according to a federal study last year of kindergarten-age children, had the highest percentage of parents in the nation who voluntarily exempted their children from one or more vaccines, out of fear of side effects or for philosophical reasons.

Which is why Washington had an outbreak when we were living there. Husband and I got our shots.

I still don't even know how I got pertussis. But, wow, do I advocate vaccines, herd immunity and maybe looking at the bigger picture.