Blog posts

I survived meningitis, seemingly unaffected. It took years to understand the true impact.

Measles has a terrible side effect most people don't know about.

I grew up in a Christian Scientist household. When I turned 18, I became a rebel.

Six months after I beat my polio infection, I re-learned how to walk. But my life wasn't the same.

I was at work with mild symptoms and within half a day I was hallucinating.

I was never convinced that vaccines were bad, but I was too young to question why my mother wouldn’t let me get them. 

My son is now almost three-and-a-half years old. His life shouldn’t be about us trying to dodge diseases.

When it came time to enter college, I was horrified that I needed vaccinations to attend.

I have been coughing for 5 months. You don't want your child to get this disease.

Many people with my cancer don’t die from the cancer itself but from infectious disease.