Growing up in the 1960s, children whose parents were Christian Scientists were given a religious exemption from vaccinations. (It was up to the parents whether they chose to use that exemption). My brother and I were never vaccinated. Later, my brother joined the Navy and was vaccinated for malaria. He became quite ill from the vaccine, but even so he has been very healthy throughout his life.
As children and teenagers my brother and I rarely missed a day of school. We were also exempt from attending health classes, so I didn’t grow up being indoctrinated.
I was quite healthy as an adult, but the first time I experienced health issues was actually due to the chemicals in food. And this is how I learned about alternate healing methods.
Even though I was 39 when I was pregnant with my daughter, I only went to a doctor twice. Once in the US and once after moving to London, England when I was 6 months along.
While I was at the doctor’s office (1997) I noticed signs on the wall warning about vaccines for children under 2 and 1/2 years old. The signs talked about an Asian country where children under the age of two and a half were not vaccinated and where there were no cases of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). I was really surprised to see this information posted prominently in a major hospital!
My daughter was born at Guys Hospital underwater with a midwife in attendance. She never cried and vaccinations were never even suggested.
When Amelia was about nine years old, she was cut on a rusty barbed-wire fence, and I took her to the doctor for a tetanus shot, because somehow I had come to believe in the myth of lockjaw.
After that, Amelia began having problems with her lungs, but I never associated it with the tetanus shot. We were living in Maui, Hawaii and I discovered that the public school was giving her milk at lunch time. I asked them to give her water instead of milk , and they refused, saying that I had to get a written permission slip from a doctor to make them stop giving her milk! Unbelievable!
[I do want to mention that raw milk is completely different and my daughter not only loved it but it completely supported her health. It's just very tricky to come by!]
In any case, Amelia grew up with only natural cures and she was quite healthy until she was was about 14 or 15. She became very ill with what was diagnosed as bronchitis. I suspect it may have been connected to the long-term effects of the tetanus shots (she was given 2 shots). The illness started slowly but became so severe that she couldn’t lie on her back because she would stop breathing, so she had to sleep sitting up in a lounge chair. I couldn't find a natural cure , and finally took her to the emergency room and gave her the antibiotics that were prescribed for ten days, but they did nothing.
During that time I discovered information about megadoses of vitamin C. So as soon as she finished the prescribed antibiotics . I started her on Mega doses of vitamin C . Within three days she had improved by about 80% and was able to lie down and sleep normally again. And within a couple more days she was completely back to normal.
At the time, the website explaining Mega doses of vitamin C contained a lot of clinical and scientific information, but all the information about it was eventually scrubbed from the internet. Happily, the process itself is simple.
If it’s appropriate for this group, I’d be happy to explain the process in a separate post for those who are interested, without going into all the scientific details. We have been using this method for the past 14 years and eventually learned how to make a liposomal version of vitamin C as well, which is really fantastic and gentle on the body.
I’m new here and still learning how things work in this group, so please let me know if it would be okay for me to share more about our experience with mega doses of vitamin C.