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Ryan as a teenager Ryan shows his 6ft 4in frame “He has to have a person beside him during the night, every hour of the night, because he could just go into seizure at any time.” His dad suspects the MMR vaccine, which in the 1990s contained trace mercury and for a time was linked to epilepsy and autism, may have contributed to Ryan’s condition. He added: “I’m certainly not anti- vaccine and I know this is not the experience of most people, but within days of having the vaccine at 15 months the light just went out of his eyes.
“He wasn’t the same child. When Ryan was born he was a lovable kid. I used to run home from work to play with him as any happy dad would.
“Then suddenly there was a change. After the vaccine he wasn’t as responsive or coherent. It was like someone just took the battery out.” Brendan admitted he misses his job as a carpenter He said: “It’s been years of labour and crying, love, care and stress – you can’t measure that in financial terms. “I feel this Government just doesn’t want to know. They have turned their back on my beautiful son.” news@irishmirror.ie
Cost of medication each week that is needed to treat Ryan’s epilepsy
Ryan having fun when he was a young boy