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H1N1 Flu Mist Insanity

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Categorized | Autism, Pharma/FDA
H1N1 Flu Mist Insanity
Posted on 22 September 2009 by C. Linderman Sr. - ATO Press

C. L. Linderman Sr. ATO Opinion Press

As public health departments and physicians across the country prepare for the impending “pandemic” we know affectionately as The Swine Flu, many of them will not be paying attention to anything but the hype and lies that are being propagated by the Centers for Disease Control and other mainstream medical associations. There is little doubt from those that pay attention to the inherent conflicts of interest within these governmental and medical organizations (primarily the CDC and FDA) that there seems to be far more concern with the bottom lines of the vaccine manufacturers than there is with the health and well being of the American public.
For any discerning physician that cares to educate themselves on the facts behind the live H1N1 nasal spray vaccine and continues to vaccinate those individuals targeted by our government for inoculation, I consider them to be criminals and domestic terrorists. Many of us have heard that pregnant women and children will be among the first to receive the H1N1 vaccine and because of the all-too-real concern regarding the mercury content of the injected H1N1 vaccine, many parents and expectant mothers will opt for the nasal vaccines for their children. This decision could be the mistake of a lifetime.
I have before me as I am writing this, the PDF copy of the H1N1 2009 Monovalent Intranasal Vaccine insert and what I am reading is disturbing to say the least. On the very first page of this 21 page PDF, under the heading of “Use in Specific Populations” I am reading; “Safety and effectiveness of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine, Live Intranasal, have not been studied in pregnant women or nursing mothers.” On the very same page in the “Full Prescribing Information Contents” sections, #8 reads; “Specific Population” 8.1 states clearly; “Pregnancy” and 8.2 states “Nursing mothers”. So while there have been no studies regarding how this vaccine will affect the fetus of a pregnant mother or her nursing infant, they are still being targeted as those that should be subjected to this vaccine!
If this weren’t enough for worried expectant mothers, 8.1 Pregnancy category C, states “Animal reproductive studies have not been conducted (with this vaccine). It is not known whether (this vaccine) can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproductive capacity.” This same paragraph goes on to clearly suggest that the vaccine “should be given to pregnant women only if clearly needed“, Yet pregnant women are one of the main groups targeted so I feel that it is safe to assume that this fills that criterion for vaccination despite the fact that they have no idea what the side effects will be. Section 8.3 (Nursing Mothers) gets even better. “It is not known whether (this vaccine) is excreted in human milk. Therefore, as some viruses are excreted in human milk and additionally, because of the possibility of shedding of vaccine virus and the close proximity of a nursing infant and mother caution should be exercised if (this vaccine) is administered to nursing mothers.”
It just gets worse as we read on. How many in this country have been asked (or will be asked) if their children are asthmatic prior to being vaccinated at the local WalMart or grocery store pharmacy? It seems that this particular vaccine increases the potential risk of wheezing, asthma attacks and hospitalization. Also, this document states that if there has been a history of Guillain Barre’ Syndrome within 6 weeks of a previous influenza vaccination, “the decision to give Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine, Live, Intranasal or Flu Mist should be based on careful consideration of the potential benefits and potential risks.” So contracting a disorder that paralyzes you could possibly indicate that perhaps you shouldn’t receive another poisonous injection? Am I the only one that finds this bizarre?
The CDC also warns you that this vaccine “may not protect all individuals receiving the vaccine.” To be honest with you, to call the CDC disingenuous would be a serious understatement given that last year’s seasonal flu vaccine was determined to be 90% ineffective yet they continued to tell the American public that they should get the vaccine anyway.
Here are a couple of other side effects that one should consider before subjecting themselves or their children to this idiotic measure to supposedly protect them from a virus that by all indications is far less virulent than the common seasonal flu: Exacerbation of symptoms of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (Leigh Syndrome), Gastrointestinal disorders (i.e. nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) Immune system disorders (anaphylactic reaction, facial edema and uticaria) Guillain Bare’ syndrome and Bells Palsy, Respiratory, thoracic and mediatinal disorders and skin and tissue disorders.
Add to this previous nonsense the fact that this nasal spray vaccine is a LIVE virus and therefore must infect and replicate in cells lining the nasopharynx of the recipient to induce immunity, one must assume that this will allow the H1N1 virus to be shed to those that come in contact with the ones that have recently been vaccinated. Many doctors believe that this infectious stage lasts up to 21 days! Let’s not also forget that the cribiform plate, the paper thin bone at the top of the nasal passages will allow this live virus to infect the brains of a small portion of those that receive the vaccines, causing a brain infection known as encephalitis which, pardon me for mentioning, is far more deadly than this benign “pandemic”.
With all this information, one should get only one message: DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

Wednesday's Window Into My World

For years now, I've had a reoccurring nightmare about Halloween. I have no idea why, and the details of the dream always change but the plot is the same...it's Halloween and I'm not prepared, the kids have no costumes it's sheer panic and frustration as I try to get them costumes in time, and trick or treating comes and my kids miss out. Now this could never ever happen. I can't imagine the world would ever run out of Halloween costumes and I'd go last minute from store to store only to come out empty handed! But yet, I have this nightmare time and time again...which makes me anxious this time of year to get the kids costumes in plenty of time. So the costumes are starting to come out in the stores, and I made sure I got first dibs on the costumes. I really wanted the boys to be Mario and Luigi, and they had agreed, until they saw the transformer costumes. So Isaiah is going to be Megatron, Xander is Optimus Prime and Tierra is going to be a lady bug...they have been put safely away so there is no chance of something bad happening to them before Halloween, So I can rest easy now, my kids will be ready!

Tackle it Tuesday

We are planning on refinancing the house, so right now I'm trying to tackle getting the house in top shape as if we were staging it to sell, in hopes of getting "top dollar" from the appraisal. I'm hoping we'll come in high enough to drop our PMI payments. We've only lived there 3 years, when we bought it was at the top of the market, so it may be pushing it a little. So that's my tackle this week...finding the time and the energy to do it, is quite the challenge though!

Menu Plan Monday

So w/ the new schedule, working doubles on Tuesday's and Thursday's I will be exploring lots of crock pot meals. The plan is to make everything up the night before, keep it in the fridge and in the morning put it in the crock pot and will be ready for Rob and the kids when they get home. This is my first week, so here goes!

Monday~Baked Teriyaki Chicken and rice
Tuesday~ Crock pot potato and kielbasa soup
Wed~Loaded baked potatoes
Thur~Homemade crock pot chicken noodle soup
Friday~Apricot Chops

Life

Life is going...that's about all I can say. Work is still slow, we are behind on all bills. We've had to take Isaiah off of biomed because of lack of $...which is making everyone miserable. He's so horrible right now, he's having several meltdowns a day...if I ever had any doubts as to how well he did on biomed it's obvious now!

Kloee is 1/2 way done w/ her beginner training class. He gave the class a mock test last week and Kloee passed well enough to graduate. She starts intermediate class on Halloween. So far she's learned to sit, stay, come, and leave it, as well as walking on a leash. She's very smart and we are very much in love w/ her. Even Rob said the other day how attached he is to her!

Xander loves all day kindergarten. I started last week w/ doing my doubles on Tue and Thursdays I love being home w/ the kids 4 days a week!!! It's VERY hard being on my feet 16 hours a day, as I don't have an easy job but my kids are worth it. I love doing homework w/ them and being there to tuck them in at night.

There is strong rumor that Rob's company is going to close down. Rob says he's going to ride it out until it happens...They've sent all the "higher ups" to other plants, and corporate has been in there taking pictures of the lines, and they just sent one of the lines to another plant...so we'll see...I'll update on that as we know more.

I think that's it from us!

It's 9-9-9

Today is the day we ask the world how much longer??? PLEASE take 5 minutes and do the same! This is mass faxing/mailing/calling campaign that will cover community-wide autism issues. Please, I would do it for your child...

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/howmuchlonger.php

A little update

I've been such a bad blogger lately, I just haven't had time, energy or motivation it seems! Hopefully I'll snap out of this funk soon! Just a quick update though...Xander got all day Kindergarten!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sooooooooo happy this will do so much for our family! I'm going to be doing doubles on Tuesday's and Thursday's and work 8 hours on Sundays, so I can knock out my 40 hours in 3 days and have 4 days a week home w/ my family. I'm going to try it for 6 weeks and see how it goes...I'm nervous, I don't know if I can handle 16 straight hours at work, it's not like I work behind a desk you know, after 8 hours I'm exhausted...so we'll see, but it would be great to be home w/ my family 4 days a week and still get my 40 hours at work.

Work is starting to pick back up, the hospital worked out whatever it needed between the ER docs and Anthem, so we now accept them again, so that's helped...hopefully I'll start getting my hours again, and we can catch up on the bills that we are so behind on.

Miss Kloee the puppy is growing so fast, she no longer looks like a little puppy, but like a miniture german shepherd now. She has begun basic training, teaching normal puppy stuff, sit...leave it...walking on a leash... etc.
She's really smart, but she is such a puppy wild and chewy, I won't miss this stage when it's gone!

I think that's about it for what's new here

Here's a new pic of Kloee and Isaiah

Summer's Over

The kids started back to school yesterday. Isaiah took it rough, he's going threw a separation anxiety stage (which he skipped as an infant so I guess he's making up for it)...I could see him trying very hard to hold back the tears. I was praying we didn't have another incidence like we did w/ camp, w/ the full blown meltdowns, and we didn't...so I was very proud of him. Xander was so excited he was awake by 3am! So far we're off to a great start. We won't know until sept 2nd if Xander will be invited into all day kindergarten. More than 1/2 the kids will be invited, so I think his odds are pretty good. I really hope so because I get next to no sleep right now! I get off work, unwind and go to sleep around 3am...get up at 7 am w/ the kids, go back to bed about 9:30/10...and get up at 11 to get Xander to school, so if he went all day I could sleep from 10-1:30 which would make a HUGE difference for me...so we'll see! Here's a few pics of the kiddos...

T-11 days and counting

11 more days till the kids are back in school...11 more days to get my house organized so we can have easy stress free days! I got the mud room turned back into a mudroom yesterday (as opposed to the catchall storage room it had become) Rob put up huge shoe wracks on one of the walls for me...everyone has their own wrack, it looks like a shoe store in there lol, but it's SOOOOOOOO wonderful to have ALL the shoes in one spot LOVE LOVE LOVE it! The back packs have spots, the lunch bags have spots...it's great. Got Tierra's room and closet organized, the boys room and closet is organized everything is organized and pretty much ready to go...now I just need to get the house cleaned as it has become a pit w/ me doing so many projects...I've got 11 days (of which most I work) to get it done...times a ticking!

Tuesday Xander has his kindergarten testing to see if he'll get all day kindergarten or 1/2 day. I'm soooooooo praying he gets whole day, I feel like he needs it...plus it'll just make life so much easier w/ me working and all...I'll update when I know!

Walkathon guide

So have you thought of doing a walkathon in your area, but don't quite know how to start...there's a great site dedicated just to that...check them out...you might even see a video you recognize over there!

http://walkathonguide.com/

Summer is almost over

I can't believe how fast this summer is going!!! I have soooo much to do and so little time! I feel like I need to get the house totally organized before school starts. I've gotten tons done! I'm almost caught up on the laundry, and have gone threw all their clothes, and given away what won't fit. Their closets are organized, and ready for back to school shopping! I still need to get the mud room organized so I will have everything organized for shoes and back packs and coats galore! I've found it very difficult to balance, summer fun...work...and all this organization...there's just not enough time in the day! Which is why my blog has been unusally quiet lately! Hopefully once the kids are back to school, and my house is organized I will be back on more! I hope everyone is having a great summer!

Tackle it Tuesday

I finally got around to tackling my laundry room, something I haven't done since we've moved here. I got it setup w/ an area for my sewing desk, and an area for me to fold clothes. The rooms not totally done, it still needs more electrical run in there, then drywalled before I can finish it. My goal is that eventually the sewing desk will also be where I do all the bills, I want a little lap top or notebook computer in there...and eventually it'll be my little office in there. But for now at least it's functional, something it wasn't before!

Menu Plan Monday

Monday~ Burgers and corn on the cob on the grill
Tuesday~BLT's
Wed~Cranberry Chicken and rice
Thur~BBQ Ribs with fresh green beans and bacon
Fri~home made sweet and sour chicken

Camp Circle of Friends

Isaiah had his week at Camp Circle of Friends...he had a great time and made friends YAY!!! He did have a rough time leaving me every day...on Thursday I decided to stay w/ him...his anxiety levels were just so awfully high, and I knew he would enjoy himself more if I was around. His favorite things were the horse back riding, and the water slide. Here is a video I put together of camp, I'm going Friday on the last day to give it to the volunteers as a thank you.

Tackle it Tuesday

This week I decided to re-tackle to the playroom. With the new puppy the kids need to keep their toys in a spot where she can't get them or they may be gone! It's not done, I couldn't finish it in just 2 days...but I made a HUGE dent in it. I replaced the flooring, and doubled the size of the room...and bought some of those cheap closet organizers to organize some of their toys. Shoe wracks make the perfect garage for medium sized cars and trucks!

Menu Plan Monday

Monday- Hamburgers and baked beans
Tuesday-Spaghetti
Wed-Colorful Kielbasa
Thur-GF/CF Corn Dogs...new for us! Recipe Below
Fri- Chicken and corn on the cob on the grill


Source: Randall Wade, GFCF Kids, Yahoo Groups



1/2 cup gfcf flour blend

1/2 cup cornmeal

1/2 tsp. xanthan gum

1/2 tablespoon sugar

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 egg, beaten

3/4 cup milk substitute

gfcf hotdogs (I use Bar-S)

Wednesday's Window Into My World

You can't tell from the pic real well, but Xander was napping in the hallway. Kloee decided that looked like a great place to nap as well!

Meet Kloee!!! Our new future Autism Service Dog!!!

Sat. Rob and I were both off of work, so I had set up appt.s w/ breeders to go look at puppies. My trainer had given me a list of characteristics to look for to help select a good trainable service dog...picking a pet is easy you find the cutest one, that is playful and responds the best to your family. I'll admit I was nervous as heck picking out a service dog. But I found one, that matched all the criteria we were looking for. Met her mama who was very sweet and friendly (another criteria). So we decided to take her home. We stopped by petsmart on the way home to find her a harness, shampoo, puppy food, and some toys.

I remembered having a puppy was like having a newborn but what I forgot is that you worry about them like they're a newborn! She slept and wouldn't eat most of the day and I was worried sick! I text my trainer who said she probably was just overstimulated. Made me feel better but was still worried she wasn't acting like a puppy!

By the end of the night she finally ate, and today she's much more energetic so I'm relieved! Hopefully she'll make a good addition to our family!

Allllll aaaaaaaaaboard

So, link after link after link Rob read about the benefits of having a service animal for an autistic child...and he is now ON BOARD!!!His only thing was he is not comfortable getting a large dog from a shelter, so he wants to start w/ a puppy. I was hoping to avoid housebreaking and puppyhood, but oh well it's a small price to pay! We are going Saturday to check out 2 different breaders, and w/ any luck we'll come home w/ our new service dog to be!