Please don’t forget the children damaged by vaccines
THANK you to Jackie Fletcher for highlighting the despair of parents whose children have been brain damaged by vaccines (Letters). My granddaughter Bethany was born absolutely perfect. She reached all the milestones, including speech, until she had the measles vaccine at the age of 18 months. Her life and that of her whole family changed from that moment. We lost her completely — she can’t speak or communicate, is doubly incontinent, racked with pain throughout her body, barely sleeps and suffers from epileptic fits. She is 19, but has the mental age of a two-year-old. Her only joy is painting to the best of her ability. Her parents are devoted to her and gave up their teaching jobs and struggle financially to care for her. They get just 14 hours of help a week for a child who needs care 24 hours a day. But their struggles to give Bethany as good a life as possible are hampered by continual form-filling.
Mrs M. GRIFFITHS, Llandudno, Clwyd. THOSE of us caring for autistic children need deeds, not words. In her campaign to highlight the danger of vaccination, Jackie Fletcher has done her utmost to save children like my grandson from being buried alive. At 15 months, he went from being a happy, healthy child to non-verbal and severely autistic. I have written to ministers of state, the heads of every organisation I can think of, doctors and healthcare professionals, but have not received any help. I wrote a book and stood in a general election trying to raise the issue. Like Jackie, I have done my best to warn everyone of the peril our children are in.