My history with vaccinations
I am tired of all the rhetoric about COVID vaccinations. I have a long history with vaccines, beginning in 1947 when I went to school. My first vaccination was for small pox. Then in 1952 my father took my family to Norway where he was working setting up radar defense after WWII. I had to have another small pox vaccination. Never vaccination left a scar.
In 1953, my father’s job took us to Athens for a few weeks. That required injections for typhoid, tetanus and typhus in order to return to Norway. To say I was sick, I spent hours on the toilet.
In 1954, we came home while my father stayed in Europe. In late 1954 we returned to Wisebaden. Again I had injections and when we finally returned to Pennsylvania in June 1955, boosters for typhoid and typhus, plus another small pox vaccination. I have no scars for small pox and was told I have natural immunity.
In the 1950s I had the polio vaccination. I don’t kno if there was a booster or if I got an injection or drink. At that time no one thought twice about immunizations. Perhaps it was because FDR had it.
I had measles after my first birthday, chicken pox in the second grade, but mumps came to me when I was nine months pregnant, and I was told I couldn’t go to St. Johns Hospital in Oxnard if I went into labor and would have to go to Ventura County Hospital. Luckily Carin waited until I was disease free. I thought Carin wound’t get mumps, but she had all childhood diseases and my second daughter, Susan had none. I don’t rember if both girls had the measles/mumps/ rubella treatment.
I have never taken a flu shot as it is made in eggs and I am allergic to chicken and eggs. I haven’t had the flu since the early 1990s. I took the COVID Moderna injections after the second one, my neck hurt and still does at times. Then 2 months later I got shingles and hear some people had the same result.
I talked to a doctor and said I think I have had so many vaccines, I don’t get things any more. He agreed with me. Any new organisms have to get through my defense system. I am diabetic and asthmatic, things that should make it easier to get COVID.
Whether others should get COVID injections is their choice, but do you want to die horribly. One thing that might help people decide to try the vaccination is to quit showing the needle on TV all the time. I know if you relax your arm it won’t hurt much. That is one thing I have learned after all the pricks.
Priscilla Styer Porterville