We Lost Freddie to Measles
My brother Freddie died of measles in 1949. I remember thinking, I never want to see my parents this sad again.
Rotavirus Spreads Like Glitter
I will always vaccinate. Because I would never want my choices to be the reason another mother has to stand in an ER doorway, unable to hold her sick child.
Polio: A Year of My Childhood in the Hospital
Vaccines exist now to prevent terrible diseases like polio. The choice is yours to make.
Hepatitis B Isn’t a Character Flaw. It Took Me Years to Believe That.
Hepatitis B is a virus, not a character flaw. It cannot be spread through hugging, shaking hands, or sharing a meal.
My mom had polio. Her life was hard.
My mom always vaccinated me. She always said, I'm like this because my mother thought the vaccine would give me polio. So yes, I'm pro-vaccine.
I Caught Mumps from My Sister. It Nearly Killed Me.
Complications from childhood diseases are real. A vaccine, had it existed, would have spared me from the most frightening experience of my life.
Every Shabbat, I Light Candles for a Girl Who Died of Polio
Whenever I light them on Shabbat, I think about Edith. I think about what it meant to live in a world without the vaccines we now take for granted.
My Aunt Caught Measles in 1957. The Vaccine Came Six Years Too Late.
My grandparents didn't have the option to vaccinate. But every parent today does. I saw what measles left behind. I saw the lives it altered forever.
A Doctor Said I’d Be Lucky to Live Past 30. I’m Still Here.
When my son was born, I made sure he got his first hepatitis B vaccine before we left the hospital.
I Grew Up Unvaccinated and Got Lucky. Now I’m a Vaccine Advocate.
Childhood memories shaped my eventual path to vaccination—it was a consequence my parents never intended.