This weekend is turning out to be the biggest weather situation so far this year. According to the latest reports, the winter storm warning is in effect until Sunday morning...churches may even end up cancelling services. More than a foot of snow is expected...but that's not the worst of it. The wind is supposed to pick up and the blowing snow around here can be absolutely blinding.
I thought I'd get to the gym before the weather got bad. It started to snow, but it appeared light. At around 11am I headed out and after just a couple of minutes, I turned around and came back. People were sliding all over the place...me included. All it took was one good slide for me and I decided that working out at home was a much better idea.
I may crawl out of here and get some "snowed-in supplies." More toilet paper. Milk. A movie or two.
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The government has agreed to pay the family of an autistic girl compensatory funds from money set aside for those injured by vaccinations. According to Newsnet5, "The parents of the 9-year-old Georgia girl described Thursday how their hearts were broken as they watched her deteriorate into an irritable, odd-behaving toddler after she got several childhood shots.Terry Poling of Athens, Ga., the girl's mother, said in a news conference that suddenly, her daughter was no longer there.Poling and her husband, Jon, said their daughter, Hannah, has been diagnosed with autism.The Polings said five simultaneous vaccinations in July 2000 led to Hannah's autistic behavior. She was about 18 months at the time."
The government consistently denies any fault with the vaccinations - Thimerosol, a mercury-based vaccine preservative, used to be in the MMR vaccine and others. It's still in that stinking worthless flu vaccine (at least this year's vaccine turned out to be worthless).
Therefore, I think it is very, VERY interesting that they paid up in this case. This girl had asympotomatic mitochondrial dysfunction and studies need to be done to see how the toxins entering the body through these vaccines will affect a child with these disorders. HERE'S the TWENTY MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: if it is asymptomatic, how will one know if the child has a mitochondrial disorder...and if the vaccinations are pushed, pushed, pushed at the parents...how can this be prevented? A study in Portugal shows that at least 5% of autistic individuals tested at some sort of mitochondrial disease. I think that's probably just the tip of the iceberg.
A fantastic website to learn more and stay informed is Autism Speaks.
My friend, Kathy, had a son, Ryan... he was developing perfectly normally. That is, until, the MMR shot he received at 18 months old. He became a different child. The hell that their family has been through since that dark day is incomprehensible.
My Aunt Candy, also has a son around the same age... he, too, was a beautiful, healthy baby boy who was right on target developmentally until the dark day they went for that MMR shot at around 15 months of age. He is not as terribly damaged as Ryan, but the effects have been just as devastating on my aunt and her husband.
I really fear for my daughter and the choices she will have to make in having her baby immunized. I know for sure she's going to avoid the trendy crap - Hepatitis B, Hib, chicken pox, that new (and dangerous) rotovirus vaccine, HPV. She's going to insist on the dead polio vaccine, might take the "P" out of the DTP, because we know too many children who have gotten very ill from that. I just shudder at that thought of what she & her husband will be going through as they make these decisions. You don't want your child to catch any of these horrible diseases... however, sometimes the preventative measures are just too dangerous themselves. Some are unnecessary.
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Today's workout: 1 hour of P90X Kenpo (it's a kickboxing program). It involves 12 minutes of a mostly yoga warmup, then 48 minutes of kicking, punching, jabbing, etc. Every few minutes you have to do a ton of jumping jacks and plyo jacks. 20 minutes of Leg Day, consisting of two supersets and a series of reverse lunges. After the Kenpo, I needed to keep the weights light.
front squat 15/40/3
duck walk 16/40/3
deadlift 15/40/3
back squat 20/40/3
sumo squat 20/40/3
Bulgarian split squats 24/3
reverse lunges 20/3
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Even more completely irrelevant... LOST has gotten good again. I'm still happy-dancing because I predicted way, way back in the begining that there was electro-magnetic business going on, like in the Philadelphia and Montauk Experiments in the 40s. Yep, and now I'm right...and loving it.
I also have to say that YEAH, Sayid has been a few episodes lately and, mmmm, I like him better than Sawyer even. :)
| I saw the news conference where the little girl in Georgia went from bright, alert, and to mentally gone after her childhood shots. Very scary. I taught autistic children at the lab school when I was working on my master's degree. My heart goes out to the parents. It is a life sentence.
I hadn't even thought about the vaccination decision my daughter and her husband get to make on my granddaughter. Scary. |
 | Your daughter should prepare for stand up fights with the medical profession! Two of my girls showed allergic reactions to the Diptheria Tetanus vaccine - local swelling, so bad that the creche phoned me for Becky in a panic - fever etc. They offered to take Katy into hospital to complete her course of shots (so that they could revive her if she went into shock). I refused, although she has caught up now. I just think kids' immune systems are quite fragile and should be treated with more respect.
Also sat on a drug company's ethics committee for a while - and in my humble opinion, they don't have any, especially where women are concerend! |
 | That sounds like some pretty severe weather - hope you manage to get the supplies, get yourself safely inside, wrap up warm and weather the storm - I suppose it'll be OK as long as the electricity and Internet supplies keep coming in. Whoa, that was close - I started reading the Lost summary, but as our TV network lost the rights to show it and I don't have Sky, I'm having to wait for the DVD box sets - sounds like it will be worthwhile for this season now. |
 | My school closed at 3 today but I had to stick around until I finished my client so I didn't get out of there until 4. My guess is there wont be any school tomorrow too. I would LOVE a 3 day weekend so bring on the snow!!!!!! 480 was a disaster coming home tonight. West bound had an accident so the cars were completely stopped. East bound we were moving between 22-30 mph the whole way home.
You know, I educated myself as much as I could when it came to making choices about shots for my kids but when you mentioned your daughter making those choices my feet went cold. My daughter in law will be making all those choices about my grandson soon and I have to be honest with you I think she makes lousy decisions. I'm worried. I'm going to have to start clipping articles and stuff for her to read and have a few discussions with her. Talk about a meddling grandma. Sigh. |
 | I've always been skeptical of the mmr vaccine once reading info on autism. SO much so, that I spread out the 18 month vaccines over a 6 month period for my daughter. I was NOT risking it even though not all info is out.
I know too many women who's children are on the autism spectrum...why now? Why in our culture and not others? Too many questions.
PS on lost, I was "meh" about this weeks episode but I really really liked the first 3 of this season! |
 | Yeah, this week's episode was not as interesting.. but I'm still on a high from being right about the time travel/electro magnetic theory. I thought that Locke was foolish for trusting Ben. |
| I guess lots of us are in the same boat, worrying about our children making the right decision with the grandbabies on these things. I've read up on some of the very non-ethical ways that these drugs & vaccines are promoted to the doctors in this country, so I can imagine that sitting on that drug company's ethics panel was VERY interesting. |
 | please kindly keep your snow by you....we're expecting very cold cold weather but no snow from what I understand and I'd like to keep it that way. I can deal with cold better than more snow! |
 | Be careful and don't leave the house unless you really, really have to. No sense taking uneccesary chances. It makes me cold to think of all that snow. I learned to drive in snow like that in Missouri, but I don't want to ever have to do it again! I've seen people do things on snow and ice that are just mind boggling. I have a tip for you that will keep you from sliding when you come to a stop. Before you put on the brake, shift into neutral. That disengages the the motor so that when you do apply the brake, the engine isn't working against you. You simply glide, rather than slide to a stop. It takes a little practice, but it works like a charm. And don't drive more than between 15 and 20 mph. Especially with that much snow on the roads. It works especially well downhill. But it will work anywher. Good luck. |
| It's about controlling disease spread in populations rather than preventing it in a single individual. |
| Thanks, Becky! I'm going to have to take some pictures of the snow...it's still coming down hard and there is at least a foot out there now...taller than my cocker spaniel. I have to go shovel an area for the dogs. |
| Please do get bunches of pictures. I'd love to see some snow this year, even if only in pitures! |
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My school closed at 3 today but I had to stick around until I finished my client so I didn't get out of there until 4. My guess is there wont be any school tomorrow too. I would LOVE a 3 day weekend so bring on the snow!!!!!! 480 was a disaster coming home tonight. West bound had an accident so the cars were completely stopped. East bound we were moving between 22-30 mph the whole way home. 
