The VBAC Blog

by Angela Hoy

Pssstt!! My name is Angie…and I have swine flu. Ssshh! Don’t tell anybody! Everybody is treating me like a leper…except for the other people in the family who have it…or have already had it. Friends and neighbors are avoiding our house and our seemingly healthy family members like the plague.

Our 8-year-old, Max, caught it first. It started with a sore throat after trick or treating on Halloween, then a fever (which never got higher than 102.2 and that was just for one night). He was feeling pretty cruddy and was sick for about 5 or 6 days. He ran a fever for five days straight (we don’t do Tylenol or any fever reducer unless a fever hits 103). On the morning of day two, he vomited once and was nauseated most of the day. He was really congested by then so we weren’t sure if it was nausea because of the congestion or because of the flu itself.

On day 3 he felt a bit better. On day 5, his fever broke in the morning and I had a hard time keeping him in bed. His nose started running profusely that afternoon and I knew his body was dumping the virus. His fever came back once more than night (it never got to 101) and he felt much better the following morning after it broke again. That afternoon, he had diarrhea, which lasted for about 12 hours (not too bad – more of an inconvenience). I knew his body was still dumping the virus. Aside from lingering congestion, he’s fine and back to his normal activities.

By the way, your body makes extra mucous when you’re sick to try to keep the bad germs out of your lungs. It also helps carry the germs either to your stomach (for disposal that way) or out your nose (for disposal in the tissue). Taking medicine to alter this natural defense mechanism (cold medicine) can make you sick longer, or even make you more ill.

Our 3-year-old caught it next. He was cranky and stuffy/runny for a couple of days, and had a low-grade fever (never higher than 101.4), which went away on the morning of day 3 or 4 (the days are starting to swim together now). He never vomited but he got a profusely runny nose toward the end and his fever returned that night (just like his big brother’s experience). He slept restlessly that night, talking in his sleep and waking up dozens of times, and his fever broke early the next morning (again, just like his brother). He then appeared just fine, bouncing around and very active. He, too, had diarrhea that evening, but only once. He has not immunizations so he rarely gets sick and, when he does, it’s always very mild. Oh, and he lost some weight because of his lack of appetite. His appetite doesn’t yet seem to be back where it was before and he also has lingering congestion but it’s getting better each day. He is back to his normal activities but I’m keeping him inside because the cold air makes his nose run more. He stopped coughing today, finally, which is about a week after he got better.

Just as he was getting better, our oldest son (who doesn’t live here but who was with us Halloween night, when Max first got sick) got it. He’s on day 7 right now and is feeling better but has not yet returned to work. He also had nausea at the beginning (but never vomited) and loss of appetite. His fever broke 3 or 4 days ago.

I caught it on Sunday night. It started with a tickle in my throat and I quickly downed even more vitamin C and D than I usually take. I prayed it was just my imagine. It wasn’t. I had a full-blown sore throat the next morning and a very low-grade fever that morning and the following morning (less than 1 degree above my norm). The biggest indicator for me that it was the real thing (I kept hoping I’d just picked up a cold somewhere – ha ha) was a bout of nausea on the first morning after drinking my coffee. I’ve had the flu several times in my life but never got nauseated from it. On day 3 my throat hurt in the morning but I felt better in the evening. I thought I was kicking it but woke up this morning (day 4) feeling like somebody had rubbed my throat with sandpaper (It was previously just my tonsils hurting – but now it’s lower). I don’t have chest congestion yet and I’m hoping I won’t. I had another wave of nausea this afternoon. I really thought I was gonna hurl this time but I didn’t. I have not run a fever since day 2 but that’s not unusual from what I’ve read online. I still have no appetite and have to force myself to eat. What a novel concept! The Swine Flu Diet! (UPDATE – DAY 5: My throat feels better this morning but I’m now sneezing and runny so my body is finally starting to shed the virus. My mother, who left Maine 8 days ago, has it now. She thinks it’s been coming on for a couple of days now but it’s really settled in and she sounded like a man when I talked to her on the phone just now. Yes, I told her so. Ha ha ha.)

Anyway, another one of our adult sons has it now. He got his sore throat this morning. His girlfriend came down with it last Friday. The incubation period seems to be 5 days with everyone. Her doctor didn’t test her but said it wasn’t swine because she didn’t have a fever. That’s a myth. Lots of swine flu cases have no fever per a May article in the New York Times. Her doc also told her it wasn’t swine because she didn’t vomit. Not everybody vomits, either. I can’t believe some docs are handing out such broad (and false) “cookie cutter facts.” Everybody’s different and different bodies react differently to the same foreign invader.

So far, my hubby and our two teenagers have been spared.

To be completely honest with you, worrying about Swine Flu / H1N1 during the media hype for the past six months, before it hit our house, was FAR worse than the actual swine flu. Even after I knew our son, Max, had it, I stopped worrying about anybody in the family dying from it. It’s obviously just another upper-respiratory illness and, if you’re in good health and take care of yourself, and take your vitamins, and drink lots of fluids, and get plenty of rest, you’re going to be just fine.

Things to look out for are a sudden worsening of symptoms after you think you (or your child) has been getting better. If that happens, get to the E.R. so they can monitor you and treat you. Also, and this should go without saying, be wary of any chest pain, rapid breathing, or difficulty breathing.

You may be tempted to run to the grocery store when you feel a bit better. DON’T. Please don’t be selfish and put others at risk just because your symptoms have calmed down for a couple of hours. Have a family member, friend or neighbor run any errands for you. Stay at home for at least a week after the onset of the illness, or at least 48 hours after your fever breaks (by itself – not due to Tylenol or another fever reducer). Stay home longer if you can.

Even if we’d had the vaccine, it would have been too late. Our town didn’t have it available until two days before Max got sick.

Do I wish we’d had access to the vaccine earlier? Heck no. We weren’t going to get it anyway because it hasn’t been tested long enough to guarantee it’s safe. Not only will we all now have lifelong immunity to H1N1 / swine flu (vaccines don’t offer that anymore) but we’ll no longer be victims to the government and media scare / hype surrounding it.

BE HEALTHY AND WISE! Do your research before letting anybody pump chemicals into you or your children! And, if someone in your family gets sick, do the right thing and STAY HOME. This new flu will pass. They all eventually do.

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Many Women Falsely Believe C-Sections are Safer than Vaginal Delivery
They also “fear pain and the prospect of having no control over the birthing process…”

Is Your Childbirth Choice Being Threatened?
“What’s next? That the ACOG recommends a woman 35 and up not deliver vaginally at all?”

Violation of Woman’s Rights!
“A woman should be able to legally choose where she wants to give birth, and with whom to managing her care, and deliver her baby.”

At the cutting edge of birth
“…cesarean delivery on maternal request (CDMR) has become a medical, ethical, financial and legal dilemma in both the developed and developing worlds.”

Potentially deadly complication caused by c-sections?
C-sections are believed to a cause placenta accreta, a potentially life-threatening complication for women on second and subsequent pregnancies.

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

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A few years ago, Merck came out with Gardasil, the HPV vaccine. Commercials seemed to be everywhere, making parents feel like they must be GOOD parents and get their daughter vaccinated right away, to prevent her from contracting HPV before she becomes sexually active…so she won’t get the cancer HPV *might* cause someday (emphasis mine). The commercials even stooped to featuring attractive young girls, saying they got the vaccination. We have a teenage daughter and she was at the prime age those commercials targeted. You know how teenage girls think – “Well, if she did it, I should, too!!!”

According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, it appears there are some things the commercials didn’t say:

1. There are more than 100 types of HPV. Fifteen of those can cause cancer. The vaccine only protects against 2 of those 15.

2. Nobody knows the relationship between contracting those 2 types and the occurrence of cancer 20-40 years later.

3. HPV is common, but, in the vast majority of cases, the body’s immune system clears it from the person’s body naturally.

4. In a “few women”, the infection may persist, perhaps someday leading to cancer in some of those “few women.” Nobody knows or can predict which women this will happen to.

5. Annual screening (your well woman checkup) can catch this early.

6. The vaccine was approved in June, 2006…but the phase 3 trials of the vaccine weren’t reported until a year later, in May, 2007. (Hey, FDA, why was this vaccine released on our children before all the data of the trials was in??)

7. More studies were needed but no new results have been released since May, 2007.

8. In, 2006 (remember, a year before the Phase 3 trials were in), the vaccine’s manufacturer “funded educational programs sponsored by professional medical associations in the United States. The article illustrates how the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and American College Health Association helped market the vaccine and influenced decisions about vaccine policy with the help of ready-made presentations, slide sets, e-mails, and letters.” If these presentations were like the TV commercials, you can bet the people on the receiving end of this propaganda were not fully informed. The State of Texas even started requiring this vaccine in girls in 2007!

9. Reactions to the vaccine range from mild to severe to the FDA reporting 28 deaths from Gardasil in 2008. You can bet none of those 28 young girls/women would have died of cervical cancer last year!

Remember, the vaccine maker AND the doctors made tons of money from this vaccine! According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 23 million doses were administered through the end of last year. The cost is $375 for a set of 3 shots. Let’s assume a “dose” is one-third of the three-shot set. That’s $2,875,000,000. Yeah, that’s right. Almost 3 BILLION DOLLARS for doctors and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Injecting (what I consider poison) into our children is big business, isn’t it?

ABC News’ Chief Medical Editor Dr. Timothy Johnson, who originally recommended parents to get the vaccine for their daughters, now says, “For the first time in my career, I cannot recommend a vaccine for its intended population — in this case, young girls.”

If your daughter has already received one or two doses, or the full set of Gardasil, read THIS for advice on what to do.

So, what did we do for our daughter? We protected her by not getting the vaccine. I’m smart enough to know that large drug companies and the FDA just consider humans statistics. Like one doctor told me years ago, “Deaths from vaccines are rare but, if it’s your child who dies, statistics are meaningless.”

You’ve heard the term “herd immunity” used in association with vaccines, right? That’s exactly what they consider us. Just one of the herd.

You can bet that every parent of a child harmed or killed by vaccines wishes they could turn back time and refuse to be influenced by the drug companies, the FDA and even their own doctors.

If you want to see if a particular vaccine has killed anybody, simple type the name of the vaccine and the word “deaths” in your favorite search engine.

Will I be allowing anybody to inject the brand spanking new H1N1 / swine flu vaccine into my children?

Hell no.

If you or someone you know gets the H1N1 / Swine Flu vaccine and you/they have an adverse reaction, please contact me at: angela@angelahoy.com

Angela Hoy became severely ill for 2 months in 2008 due to antibiotic poisoning. Her doctor kept prescribing higher and higher doses when the antibiotics were the cause of her symptoms in the first place. She is an admitted skeptic of drugs, the FDA, and some doctors (not all – there are some good ones). She is also the author of DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER (NVIC)

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VBAC rate among Brockton hospitals plummets to nearly nothing
“…one of those hospitals does so few VBACs, or vaginal births after Cesarean, the state does not even calculate an annual rate for the procedure.”

Natural births decline after previous C-sections
Tampa mom hires midwife after having trouble finding provider that would allow VBAC.

Hospital gave Pitocin to VBAC mom despite risks; uterus ruptured. $31M Malpractice Verdict.
The nurses continued to give her Pitocin, even as her contractions escalated to unsafe levels, and “they blew the uterus apart,” Lawrence said.

C-Section Push
“…risks of surgery outweigh the risks of vaginal delivery.”

Woman Shows Gratitude for Exceptional Birth Experience
“With a cesarean section rate approaching 32% nationwide (CDC), an effort is being made to discover why fewer infants of healthy mothers die in vaginal birth than in cesarean section (CDC).”

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

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GARDASIL

FDA records link 28 deaths in 2008 to the Gardasil vaccine
“Records obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act show 47 deaths and thousands of serious adverse events associated with Gardasil.”

You can bet NONE of the little girls affected would have died of cervical cancer last year!

“The deaths included several girls ages 11 and 12 who had no existing medical conditions prior to receiving the vaccine. In some cases, the girls died within three days of receiving one shot of the vaccine. Others died following their third Gardasil injection. Several died in their sleep.”

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“FDA records also show 6,723 ‘adverse events’ were reported following Gardasil vaccinations in 2008, ranging from genital and facial warts and permanent disability to cervical cancer and Guillain-Barre Syndrome.”

DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THE PARENTS OF THESE GIRLS DID! JUST SAY NO!!! PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER FROM BEING KILLED OR SERIOUSLY INJURED BY BIG DRUG COMPANIES!

WHY AREN’T VACCINE MAKERS REQUIRED TO MENTION THE NUMBER OF DEATHS CAUSED BY THEIR PRODUCTS IN THEIR COMMERCIALS AND ADVERTISEMENTS?!

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SWINE FLU VACCINE

The government is proposing mass vaccinations in schools. They want us to line up our innocent children, little piggies in a row, to get shot full of chemicals. Do you think nobody is going to due from this vaccine? DON’T BE FOOLED!

And, if you or your child is injured or killed, who can you sue? NOBODY!

According to the Associated Press, “Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, government health officials said Friday.“

If there is no financial accountability for vaccine makers, what’s their incentive to create the safest product possible? Do you really think they care about your child? Vaccines cause deaths all the time yet drug companies still keep making and marketing those vaccines!

The same thing happened in 1976. American panicked when one soldier died of swine flu. Many, many more people were killed or injured by the resulting vaccine that Americans were coerced (through fear) into getting. Click HERE. It’s like stepping back in time!