I had the same injections as Stawks but I didn't complain too much as I had seen the results of an adult who caught polio. She was a nurse from England who caught polio from some of her patients.
She had metal calipers on her legs and still had to use crutches for the rest of her life. She was also a widow with a toddler so her mother had to give up her life to look after them both.
The little girl grew up way to quickly.....she had to help look after her mother who was very housebound and had to rely on the child and her own mother for the rest of her life.
The measles vaccination did not come in till the late 70s I believe....our doctor would not give it to my eldest daughter as he thought it was unsafe but he did give it to my youngest 4 or 5 years later as it had been changed and was now considered safe.
In 1968 I was expecting my first baby and was inadvertently exposed to German measles....I had to be given the antivenom. Now that was a injection to be worried about. It was a very thick serum so needed a thick needle....and there was a lot of it. My doctor ended up giving it in 4 different injections but it was still extremely painful, leaving bruises at the injection site and I could not sit down for 2 days.
As a baby in the late 1940s I had the standard available vaccinations including diphtheria and whooping cough but it did not prevent me getting something in the 70s that was suspected to be diphtheria....my kids had to go to their grandmother's for weeks and I could not come in contact with anyone....was not even allowed to answer the door. That was before there was any thought of booster vaccinations for adults. I had so many courses of antibiotics that I developed an allergy to penicillin....I cannot use it to this day.
My mother caught mumps from my eldest daughter in the l970s and she was really ill. My youngest daughter caught everything from her older sister usually before she was old enough to have the jabs.
There is no way on earth that I would not give my children all possible vaccinations and neither would I dodge having any adult boosters that are advised....and if I had been asked I would have advised that my granddaughters have every available vaccination too....thankfully it was a no brainer as they got them without me having to say anything.
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