Look, we're not idiots. And I know that my family doesn't take me seriously. They just believe that I follow a bunch of baseless ideals for the sake of being "anti-everything". Which isn't true. I'm just one of the few people who actual stop and think about the effectiveness of actions before I do them. Most people just do what they're told to do by someone they feel is more educated then them like a doctor. And especially if fear is the motivator. "You could get sick if you don't..." is a very persuasive arguement. Unfortunately it's isn't true 90% of the time.
So to all you people who feel you are above the rules (see previous post) and want to tell us what we should do with our child. Stop. And especially to all the people who say we should do some research (thanks for just assuming we hadn't, again, my family doesn't take me seriously), it's pretty hypocritical for you to be saying that when I guarantee you did no research on the effects of all the immunizations you gave your kid. Did you? Did you research all the vaccinations, how well they were tested, the test result and all the side effects? No. The doctor says do it and you snap in line. "Your baby could get sick and die!!!" I better do exactly what the doctor wants. Even though he is getting PAID to sell you those vaccinations. So, maybe you should do some research, since I already have. Here are some highlights other than talking to our Midwife and Doctor.
You can read "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations", by Stephanie Cave.
You can read the CNN Health article that printed: Currently, newborns receive hepatitis B shots before they're discharged from the hospital.
"I've never understood why we give this at birth," said Dr. Richard Frye, assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Texas Medical Center at Houston.
Hepatitis B is spread by having sex with an infected partner, by sharing needles, by sharing razors or toothbrushes with an infected person or by contact with blood or open sores of an infected person. Health Library "I don't know babies who have sex or share needles," said Dr. David Traver, a pediatrician in private practice in Foster City, California.
Other fun information:
An unpublished study by the World Health Organization (WHO) on a "measles susceptible" (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn't been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received the measles vaccine (MMR), 33.5% contracted measles.
In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age for infant vaccinations to 2 years. As a result, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or, crib death) and infant convulsions virtually disappeared. In the 80's, Japan lowered the minimum age back down to 3 months and the rate of SIDS returned to previous levels.
According to the U.S. National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (est.1986): To qualify for compensation, the adverse effects of vaccination must occur within four hours of receiving the vaccine. Despite this extremely severe limitation, as of February 28, 1998 compensatory payments have totaled $871,800,000.00. This figure is even more alarming when it is revealed that only one in four claimants were awarded compensation.
Some researchers postulate that the use of live viral vaccines introduce foreign genetic material into the human system, which has contributed to the unprecedented escalation of auto-immune disorders (like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, Crohn's disease, asthma, etc.) in recent decades.
Now tell me again to do some research! There are way too many things we don't know about the effects of a lot of immunizations. Blindly injecting them into your child based on the recommendation of one person who is gaining financially from you accepting them is irresponsible. They aren't all necessary, we are researching which ones are and we will get our child the ones we want, when we want. And we are doing that to make sure our child stays happy and healthy, not because it's what we've been brainwashed into doing.
Do stuff because it makes sense to do, not because it's social routine...
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
25 Weeks 6 Days: A Socially Acceptable Post
Dear Baby,
I know you will not end up normal person because I am your father. I don't do the things that other people do. My basic rule of thumb is, if it starts with the words "supposed to", I don't like it. Things you're supposed to do or not supposed to do. Most of those things don't have any real logical reason, people just decided that they better do it or else other people might think badly of them. Well, I don't give a shit what other people think. So there are a lot of things that I might or might not do that you'll probably see a lot of other people do based on habit, social acceptability or because someone they feel has knowledge (ie. a doctor) told them to even though that person is probably full of shit.
- I don't do everything the doctor tells me. They talk as if they know everything about everybody, but they don't. We're all different and they can't accurately account for that. They just go off of a book.
- I don't run out and get flu shots every year (and I've never needed one).
- I don't plan on pumping you full of vaccinations that you don't need (ie. most of them).
- I don't celebrate christmas. It's the celebration of a religious figure from a religion I'm not a part of. And I don't like to add to the corporatism that fuels the sheer madness of the season.
- I don't think it's shameful to spend time in jail. It happens and if you go because you were standing up for something you believe in I'll be very proud of you.
- I don't hold back my opinion because someone else might not like it. I don't want to live in a world were everyone is sheltered from everything all the time.
- I don't give a shit if you swear. On TV now they bleep out crap and balls and words that aren't swear words because they might reference something "naughty". Oh no! Not balls! BALLS BALLS BALLS. SHIT PISS FUCK. There you heard it, I'm sure you'll turn out fine.
Honestly, I don't think life is as complicated as the media and the doctors and the police and the politicians what us to believe it is. Be yourself, don't take shit from anyone, tell people how you feel, question the doctor, don't even listen to the news and enjoy your life.
I was somewhere the other day and their was a sign on the wall that said:
Please, take the ride...
I know you will not end up normal person because I am your father. I don't do the things that other people do. My basic rule of thumb is, if it starts with the words "supposed to", I don't like it. Things you're supposed to do or not supposed to do. Most of those things don't have any real logical reason, people just decided that they better do it or else other people might think badly of them. Well, I don't give a shit what other people think. So there are a lot of things that I might or might not do that you'll probably see a lot of other people do based on habit, social acceptability or because someone they feel has knowledge (ie. a doctor) told them to even though that person is probably full of shit.
- I don't do everything the doctor tells me. They talk as if they know everything about everybody, but they don't. We're all different and they can't accurately account for that. They just go off of a book.
- I don't run out and get flu shots every year (and I've never needed one).
- I don't plan on pumping you full of vaccinations that you don't need (ie. most of them).
- I don't celebrate christmas. It's the celebration of a religious figure from a religion I'm not a part of. And I don't like to add to the corporatism that fuels the sheer madness of the season.
- I don't think it's shameful to spend time in jail. It happens and if you go because you were standing up for something you believe in I'll be very proud of you.
- I don't hold back my opinion because someone else might not like it. I don't want to live in a world were everyone is sheltered from everything all the time.
- I don't give a shit if you swear. On TV now they bleep out crap and balls and words that aren't swear words because they might reference something "naughty". Oh no! Not balls! BALLS BALLS BALLS. SHIT PISS FUCK. There you heard it, I'm sure you'll turn out fine.
Honestly, I don't think life is as complicated as the media and the doctors and the police and the politicians what us to believe it is. Be yourself, don't take shit from anyone, tell people how you feel, question the doctor, don't even listen to the news and enjoy your life.
I was somewhere the other day and their was a sign on the wall that said:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO, what a ride!”
Please, take the ride...
Thursday, October 8, 2009
24 Weeks 4 Days: My Brain is Melting
Dear everyone,
Shut up. Just shut up. All of your little bullshit idiotic ideas about how you think things should be are wrong. Everybody on the face of the planet is wrong. You have no idea how wrong you are. All of us. So just shut up already.
Shut up. Just shut up. All of your little bullshit idiotic ideas about how you think things should be are wrong. Everybody on the face of the planet is wrong. You have no idea how wrong you are. All of us. So just shut up already.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
23 Weeks 3 Days: Legal Drug Dealers
I got my bill in the mail from my emergency room visit. Just a reminder of what I had done: Cut the tip of my finger almost off, went to the emergency room, had a nurse take my blood pressure, then they gave me an X-Ray to make sure I didn't hit the bone, then I was given a room and another nurse gave me a Tetanus shot, then a Nurse Practitioner came in, numbed my finger, rubbed it with some iodine and put in 7 stitches, she left then the nurse came back in a wrapped it with gauze. I was there for about 2 hours, but I was in contact with hosptial staff for a collective 30 minutes. Grand Total: $1,135.08. And that's after a "uninsured discount" of $463.62 which brings that actual amount they feel they deserve to $1,598.70. Now lets break that charge down.
Mediations: $47.30
X-Ray: $91.50
Emergency Room Services: $608.75
Medications With Detail: $304.15
Professional Fee Emergency: $547.00
Medications is the Lanacane they used to numb my finger. They did have to use twice as much as she planned on so this seems to be the most reasonable charge though still a bit pricey. You know they mass produce this crap dirt cheap and the hospital puts a 1000% markup on it.
X-Ray is obviously the X-Ray. After paying the X-Ray tech and for the supplies and use of the room I guess this isn't horrible, but it did only take about 10 minutes which means this room costs $549 an hour to operate. Seems a bit inefficient.
Emergency Room Services is the fee for just having me use the emergency room itself. Well, is the use of the X-Ray room in this charge? I mean, if it's not, then they charged me $608.75 to have a receptionist enter my info into the computer and sit in the waiting room.
Medications With Detail is supposedly medications that were administered by a medical professional (I guess I gave myself a shot of Lanacane). The only medication I got besides Lanacane was a Tetanus shot. I double checked with the lady at thefinance office and yes, this $304.15 is for one Tetanus shot and nothing else. Again, you know that this is being manufacture dirt cheap, and then the drug company marks it up to make record profits and then the hospital marks it up to make record profits and the patient get screwed. And when I asked the lady, "It costs $304 for a Tetanus shot?" She said, "Yep," like there was no reason for me to question that.
Professional Fee Emergency is the fee for Nurse Practitioner who stitched me up. Again, she was in the room for maybe 15 minutes which means this lady makes over $2000 an hour. And supposedly, people get into the medical profession to help people... Really? And I know she's got expenses to pay (insurance, ect.), but this charge is ri-god-damn-diculous. I'm going to find a job where I install one door and then send the person a bill for $500 just for labor. They would call and question that bill.
So the hospital is sending me the form to fill out to get a financial assistance discount. That will come in the mail in a few days and then it will take a few weeks to process it. So we'll see where that gets us. Oh and their wonderful cleaning job didn't work because the damn wound got infected. I had to go to my doctor so he could soak it in an iodine solution, took out some of the stitches and put me on antibiotics. I bet if I brought my finger in and asked for a refund they would probably laugh at me.
And this is why I have little faith for any health care reform that might happen. It's not about who pays for it, it about how much it costs. These procedures and medications should not cost as much as they do.
Mediations: $47.30
X-Ray: $91.50
Emergency Room Services: $608.75
Medications With Detail: $304.15
Professional Fee Emergency: $547.00
Medications is the Lanacane they used to numb my finger. They did have to use twice as much as she planned on so this seems to be the most reasonable charge though still a bit pricey. You know they mass produce this crap dirt cheap and the hospital puts a 1000% markup on it.
X-Ray is obviously the X-Ray. After paying the X-Ray tech and for the supplies and use of the room I guess this isn't horrible, but it did only take about 10 minutes which means this room costs $549 an hour to operate. Seems a bit inefficient.
Emergency Room Services is the fee for just having me use the emergency room itself. Well, is the use of the X-Ray room in this charge? I mean, if it's not, then they charged me $608.75 to have a receptionist enter my info into the computer and sit in the waiting room.
Medications With Detail is supposedly medications that were administered by a medical professional (I guess I gave myself a shot of Lanacane). The only medication I got besides Lanacane was a Tetanus shot. I double checked with the lady at thefinance office and yes, this $304.15 is for one Tetanus shot and nothing else. Again, you know that this is being manufacture dirt cheap, and then the drug company marks it up to make record profits and then the hospital marks it up to make record profits and the patient get screwed. And when I asked the lady, "It costs $304 for a Tetanus shot?" She said, "Yep," like there was no reason for me to question that.
Professional Fee Emergency is the fee for Nurse Practitioner who stitched me up. Again, she was in the room for maybe 15 minutes which means this lady makes over $2000 an hour. And supposedly, people get into the medical profession to help people... Really? And I know she's got expenses to pay (insurance, ect.), but this charge is ri-god-damn-diculous. I'm going to find a job where I install one door and then send the person a bill for $500 just for labor. They would call and question that bill.
So the hospital is sending me the form to fill out to get a financial assistance discount. That will come in the mail in a few days and then it will take a few weeks to process it. So we'll see where that gets us. Oh and their wonderful cleaning job didn't work because the damn wound got infected. I had to go to my doctor so he could soak it in an iodine solution, took out some of the stitches and put me on antibiotics. I bet if I brought my finger in and asked for a refund they would probably laugh at me.
And this is why I have little faith for any health care reform that might happen. It's not about who pays for it, it about how much it costs. These procedures and medications should not cost as much as they do.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
23 Weeks 0 Days: Words Can't Describe
I was sitting in a Fred Meyer bathroom the other day, relieving myself when I glanced over and noticed a funny device on the wall. It was a seat, or really more like a "dock" for your baby. You could dock your baby there and take a dump while not having to worry about him/her crawling away. The idea already seemed stupid to me, but then I took a closer look.Upon careful
inspection, I realized that, not only was the strap to hold your baby in missing, the top two of the four screws that is supposed to hold it to the wall where gone. 50% of what hold your baby 3 feet off the ground where not even there. Hopefully nobody uses it because the strap is gone, but what if the strap was there? Some idiot would stick their baby in there, it would fail off the wall and that jack ass would sue Fred Meyer. And yes, Fred Meyer should be fixing these things, but do we really need to live in a country where our child's safety is up to everyone else? If your going to use a random device in a shopping center bathroom, you don't think you should give it a once over before you use it? And are we surprised that this stupid device is broken? I mean, the logo for the "Safe-Sitter" is two babies head butting each other?!?!
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