A Visceral, Overwhelming Empathy
I remember the day I miscarried. I remember reluctantly accepting that the last shred of hope for the pregnancy was gone. I remember being in…
Dovie, Ivy, and Pansy: Three Sisters, One Disease
I’m sure many mothers can relate when I say that family is my world. My extended family tells me where I came from. My parents…
Learning from the Past: Gae’s Story
I am a sixty-nine year old Australian, which means that I benefited from a totally free childhood immunization program.  I started school in 1949 and was…
Remembering Nicholas
"Are any of them twins?" And there it is again.  It's not an unreasonable question with so many children so closely spaced together, but every…
There’s an Anti-Vaccine Movement?
It's no secret that I have always been science-minded. My entire life, I wanted to become a doctor. I took AP science courses in high school, entered…
No Chances
"Because with a son who is immunocompromised due to a heart transplant, we can not take any chances with vaccine preventable diseases."
Prevention
"Because we don't want our children to suffer from diseases previous generations worked so hard to prevent."










