I very well may be starting a shit storm with this one. I am about to speak opinionated about something I know little to nothing about, but I do it out of jealously.*

I read Dooce.com almost everyday. Shes a "mommy blogger", who is also part of Momversations and if you're a mom I highly recommend reading both. I am not a mom, but find Heather (dooce) highly entertaining, informational, and also enlightening. Momversation as well as Heather recently did a posting on vaccinating your children and the choices parents make about this. While there is SOOO much I have to say about this, I'm going to leave it at, I think you should vaccinate. Period. And I'm not going to go into it any further.

But what I do want to touch on, is that the parents that choose not to vaccinate (by fear of Autism) are obviously so willing to take on other things. This is what I do not understand. For instance, Polio. Wow Polio sucks, peoples lives were changed, and people died. We have a flipping CURE for polio, that people are now denying their children. And it made me wonder...lets say by some twist of fate we find out what causes MS. We create a vaccine for it, that is administered to our children. If there was a CHANCE that vaccine would cause something else...say Autism**...would you pass on it?

Maybe we find out MS is just like polio. What if everyone is susceptible (which we sorta know is false anyway, but entertain me) to getting MS, and this one little shot when were 6 months old will make sure we have NO chance in ever getting it. Sounds amazing, right? What if the MS vaccination caused Autism, or cancer, or could possibly cause hell, even Polio?  At this point in your life, if you could make this decision for your kids (or future kids) would you vaccinate them? If you could protect them from MS but would open the door to something else would you do it?

We know what we get with MS right? We know little, but we know for the most part what life will entail from best scenario, to worst possible scenario . For most of us, it sucks but yea its totally do able. Is it easier to deal with what we know, or hope for the best with the possibility of uncharted territory?

On the flip side, what if you chose NOT to vaccinate, and MS is a virus which is air borne (which, frankly, is kind of a possibility) and you take your child to the pediatrician. There are a bunch of babies and old people (why are there old people? I dunno. Its grandparents day or something), what if your child who is unvaccinated is now silently carrying MS, and passes it onto these other people. These people all get MS, and there is an MS outbreak because of one child. Sounds crazy right? Wrong. This kind of shit is happening with measles and the whooping cough because of all of these people who are not vaccinating their children. Here in 2009 we have having measles outbreaks and people have died. CRAZY.

What if you're a kid who gets polio or something and you can't walk, all because your parents were afraid of you getting something else? Can you say, resentment issues?

So now I've babbled, and probably totally lost you at this point. BUT I guess what it comes down to is, how far wold you be willing to go in order to protect those your know and love (and even some you don't) from MS?

For me, I really don't know. My MS is very mild and not very aggressive. I am "lucky" when it comes to the MS train. If it were me, would I pass on a future of MS for something else say Autism? Nope, I'll take my MS please. What about cancer? Nope, MS please. Polio? Nope MS please. Sometimes I need to be reminded to get my head out of my ass and stop feeling sorry for myself. 

If there was an MS vaccine that caused maybe like a fever for a few weeks, or a cold or something like that..yes, I would then vaccinate. I guess it just comes down to what is the lesser of the evils?

Ugh this post is total shite.

*Why am I jealous? Because there is a cure for these little illnesses. I was vaccinated and I didn't get any, except maybe the chicken pox. I'm jealous that there is no vaccine for MS.
**The arguments state that the MMR is the one that allegedly causes Autism...so I am giving scenarios here...don't write me about how wrong my research is.