Vaccination Records

[Ralph Wiggum]

I was informed last week that there have been measles & mumps outbreaks in the Midwest. Since I work in a healthcare setting, although not directly with patients, I had to provide my employer a vaccination history. I was completely shocked to find out that my Mom still had such records.

I realized why I hated shots & drawing blood for the first two-thirds of my life...I had a LOT of shots when I was a kid.

Do you have access to such records or do you even know where they are?

[IassaFTots]

I am pretty sure my Mom has mine still.  She never throws anything away. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I am pretty sure my Mom has mine still.  She never throws anything away. 

My mom does throw a lot of stuff away, though.  That's why I was surprised.

I don't have kids, so I guess I never thought of the importance of keeping such things.  I'm kind of surprised that the ex-wife wasn't in possession of such records.

[IassaFTots]

My mom does throw a lot of stuff away, though.  That's why I was surprised.

I don't have kids, so I guess I never thought of the importance of keeping such things.  I'm kind of surprised that the ex-wife wasn't in possession of such records.

Well, she probably couldn't find them.  But, when I visited her last, we were going through some paperwork, and she still had a copy of my Dad's birth Certificate.  They were divorced in 76, and he has been dead since 98.  If I had ever been in charge of my own immunization records, I probably would have chunked em at some point. 

[BEG]

My mom gave me my baby book a few years ago. My shot records were in it.  My kids each have a card that has their shot records on them that I keep in our safe.  

[Mike220]

My mom still has mine. I had to get a copy for my surg tech program.

Of course, now that I have them, they changed the requirements to getting blood tests for proof of most of them. 

[longview]

I have mine and my kids' have theirs.  I also have copies of the vaccination records and duplicates of their birth certificates, per their request.

[debk]

If I could find my baby book around here, I might then have a copy of mine.

I don't know where my kids' are, but once has had vaccines up the whazoo from being in the Navy, and the other one is in the medical field so she's had a bunch too.

Obviously mine aren't any good, since I got the chicken pox a little over a year ago....

[vesta111]

If I could find my baby book around here, I might then have a copy of mine.

I don't know where my kids' are, but once has had vaccines up the whazoo from being in the Navy, and the other one is in the medical field so she's had a bunch too.

Obviously mine aren't any good, since I got the chicken pox a little over a year ago....

I do know that as a kid I had to have smallpox vac. to go over seas with my parents and they ran into a problem, the shots never blistered or even got red.

I was the only kid in school that did not have that deep scar on my arm from the shot.  Later on in life I was told that I must have some kind of immunity to the disease and later on told that I should never let my kids get the shot as they had no idea why it did not work on me.

No problem until my 10 year old daughter spent the summer with my parents. I had informed my parents of the reason she had never had the shot and had no scar.

For some crazy reason my parents thought this was foolishness and when a free shot clinic opened up at a local church took her to get the shot.  My daughter had been told to never get the shot and told the nurses giving the shots and they just poo-pooed her.

12 hours later she went into convulsions and had to be hospitalised for a couple of days. She of all my kids had a quarter sized round scar.  These scars do go away after 10 years or so.  None of her kids ever had the shot.

[debk]

I do know that as a kid I had to have smallpox vac. to go over seas with my parents and they ran into a problem, the shots never blistered or even got red.

I was the only kid in school that did not have that deep scar on my arm from the shot.  Later on in life I was told that I must have some kind of immunity to the disease and later on told that I should never let my kids get the shot as they had no idea why it did not work on me.

No problem until my 10 year old daughter spent the summer with my parents. I had informed my parents of the reason she had never had the shot and had no scar.

For some crazy reason my parents thought this was foolishness and when a free shot clinic opened up at a local church took her to get the shot.  My daughter had been told to never get the shot and told the nurses giving the shots and they just poo-pooed her.

12 hours later she went into convulsions and had to be hospitalised for a couple of days. She of all my kids had a quarter sized round scar.  These scars do go away after 10 years or so.  None of her kids ever had the shot.

I had a smallpox shot as a kid and it never scarred either.

When I went to college, it was required that I have a "visible" smallpox vaccine scar. A physical was also required back then. Went to my dad's internist and he read the requirements on the form, so said he'd give a vaccine to make sure that I had a scar.

Yeah....he gave me a vaccine alright... I was sick as a dog for a couple of days, couldn't lift my arm for about a week! And....I still don't have a scar!! 

[Chris_]

Don't even ask.  I had a copy of my original birth certificate about 20 years ago and haven't seen it since.  I had to pay $65 to the state of New York for a certified COLB (I guess that's what you get today when you ask for a BC).  If I wanted a copy of the original, I'd have to drive up to Albany and spend a week in line somewhere.

[vesta111]

I had a smallpox shot as a kid and it never scarred either.

When I went to college, it was required that I have a "visible" smallpox vaccine scar. A physical was also required back then. Went to my dad's internist and he read the requirements on the form, so said he'd give a vaccine to make sure that I had a scar.

Yeah....he gave me a vaccine alright... I was sick as a dog for a couple of days, couldn't lift my arm for about a week! And....I still don't have a scar!! 

 DEBK, we are still trying to find out how the body works.

I read a few years ago a medical report from Europe on why some people in the high risk category's never get AIDS.

At that time scientists felt that people with immunity to the disease had ancestors that survived the Black Plague.    Milk maids that contacted the cow pox seldom got small pox.

Today we know that people get shingles if they have had chicken pox, Nurses and doctors that never had chicken pox can tend to those that have the ailment without getting shingles themselves.

The jury is still out about vaccinations causing autism in one child but the next sibling has no problem.  Genitics?

Unless one is an identical twin--even then their finger prints are different, the DNA is different in everyone.

We just do not know what kind of diseases our ancesters survived to cause problems in future generations.

[DefiantSix]

We stopped the vaccinations on my son after his 18-month shots boomeranged on us.  He CAUGHT pertussis (whooping cough) from the immunization and spent a month in pediatric ICU on a ventilator and heart lung machine.  Too damned close to losing him that time, to risk playing Russian roulette with a needle again.