Dear friends at NVIC, I thought my story might be of interest to you. This year I began my sophomore year pursuing a BSN (Baccalaureate of Nursing Sciences) degree. I was not too happy about being required to get the trivalent flu vaccine as a requirement for participation in clinical practice hours at the hospital but I did it anyway. Since the only requirement was to get the vaccine and not which type it was I opted for the Flumist inhaled version as the lesser of two evils. I found that it is actually quite difficult to get the Flumist vaccine. Most hospitals do not carry it and the local doctors were unwilling to order one just for me (even though I went so far as to contact the manufacturer and was told that a bulk order to a doctor would only be a minimum of 10 doses which cost $1 a piece). The doctor would charge me over $30 just to inoculate me so I didn't understand his refusal. I even tried to order a 10-dose case so that I could just inoculate myself in front of the doctor at the university clinic but the manufacturer would not send it to me since I did not have a medical license. Although some local outreach clinics had it in their refrigerators it was a pediatric dose. When I asked if I could just take 2 doses they told me that the doses they had were only for low-income children and paid for by the state of Kentucky and could not be used on me. Finally, I found a company called Passport Health in Lexington that vaccinated people traveling abroad. They had every vaccine imaginable. It cost me $30 but all I really needed was that piece of paper that certified that I was vaccinated. I went through all of this to protect my health for reasons that all of you at NVIC know too well. There was no obvious problem. I did nothing wrong. Occasionally there are people with latex allergies who cannot receive an injected flu vaccine because the minute quantity of latex stuck in the bevel in the head of the syringe from the rubber stopper on the vaccine vial is enough to set off a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction. And, it is a fact that nurses often acquire latex allergies over time. This is not really a "loophole" but a necessary option. I am an "A" student, met all the other requirements of the nursing program and was doing quite well. Then came the fateful day when I made the huge mistake of making my stance on vaccines known. One of our regular assignments was to keep a journal in which we were to include a hand-written essay every week regarding our nursing school experiences. A different assignment was given each week by the program director. We were asked to write our "thoughts and concerns" and we were assured repeatedly that there was no right or wrong answer – that it was just a journal for our own reflection and that we would be cherish reviewing it after we finished the program. This particular week we were asked to go to the CDC website and choose a topic that revolves around "infection control issues that are and will impact your nursing career". I made the mistake of being completely honest and chose the topic of the flu vaccine. I have attached a copy of my journal entry for your enjoyment. It was just supposed to be a page or two so I kept it brief although I could have made it much longer since I have researched this topic extensively right down to the biochemistry of chelating my blood just in case I had to actually get injected with one of these adjuvant laden vaccines. Well, when the nursing teacher (who was substituting for her husband, my regular clinical instructor) read it she flipped out! She waited until after clinical practice was over (8 hours later), called me aside, and brought me into a private office. She told me that what I wrote was "judgmental", "unaccepting", and "inappropriate personal disclosure!" I asked her if she was familiar with the criteria of the assignment and she insisted that I must have misunderstood the assignment. I have attached a copy of the assignment so you can judge for yourself if I misunderstood it because what happened next was very interesting. I whole-heartedly apologized and asked her if I should rewrite it. She told me "no" and wrote a report that documented that I had been counseled. From that point on strange things started to happen to me. Among them was that the dean of students ambushed me after I submitted a standard urinalysis at the MSU clinic. He spent almost an hour psychoanalyzing me wondering if I was a conspiracy nut. He told me that the teacher had flagged my name to him and that the director of the MSU clinic had also done so because I had inquired of her if the Flumist vaccine was available at the clinic and refused to get the injected kind when it was offered free. I found out later that these two were friends and had hatched this plan to find a reason to distress the dean. Finally, at the end of the semester, during the last week, this same teacher and the program director called me into a meeting or "conference" as they called it. In short, they told me that they were going to blackball me if I stayed in the program because of what I had written in that journal. They said my opinions about the risks associated with the flu vaccine were irrational and didn't want me around. I guess at least part of their indignation centered around the fact that nurses take pride in their legally protected ability to give injections. I've heard them colloquially call it the right to "push drugs." Maybe they felt threatened that by me even implying that something injected might be harmful that I was calling nurses harmful. Then they just connected dots that weren't there. It's quite a quantum leap of logic but I can't rationalize any other reason for this witch hunt other than they were told to act as gatekeepers at the behest of the government or the pharmaceutical lobby. So there you go. This is how future health care providers can be screened for compliance with the party line. It is very difficult to get a medical or nursing license without going through a college. This is a bottleneck and control point. Even though I had spent $17,000 to get that far I dropped out of the program because I was certain they could carry out their threats. There is a very grey area in the rulebook that constitutes what is and is not unprofessional conduct. Unprofessional conduct can mean anything they want it to mean and I have no doubt these two could be very creative. I was told that they had done this before and I was not the first. I did not publicly announce my views to the college or any patients in my care but instead kept them private (but not private enough) and that was more than adequate to set the modern medical Gestapo in motion. I don't know if they were instructed to do this or if they did this of their own volition in an attempt to "save the world" but I thought it would be good to alert your organization so that you can have this information to alert others that may find themselves in the same boat. I suppose I should have announced my views publicly...with a bullhorn. The results would have been the same with me but I also might have saved someone's health -if anyone would listen. It is after all a real mental leap of faith to question the authority of the healthcare system that you and everyone around you trusts implicitly. Ironically, one of the girls in my class did have an adverse reaction to her flu vaccine (injected type). She had headaches, sometimes felt dizzy, was tired and lethargic, and had vision problems for several weeks afterwards. In fact, I don't really know if the symptoms ever subsided. She is no longer in the program because she failed one of the classes and I lost contact with her. In addition, after about the first week her herpes simplex 1 reactivated. Her lips broke out. I suggested she should go to a doctor but she was too embarrassed. I also suggested that she at the very least report the reaction to the VAERS website but I don't think she did that either even though she was absolutely certain that the vaccine caused her troubles. Sick people don't feel like filling out forms. For that matter, healthy people don't like the hassle either. If someone like a nursing student won't do it then I'd expect the reporting rate is very low. Also of note, one of the other girls in my class told me that in her clinicals at a hospital just outside of Lexington she is treating quite a few patients with neuropathies from Guillain-Barre syndrome. They told her that they "got it" from the flu vaccine. I know that Barbara Lowe Fisher and Joseph Mercola are always reporting this but before she told me this it never really hit home with me that the victims really are piling up every year and have to return to the hospitals regularly for treatment. This free vaccine may end up costing you a lot. Beware of free things, there are usually strings attached. My medical career may be over but at least I have my health. I could be one of them! One more thing, don't worry about the copyright I wrote on the top of the journal entry. I wrote that on all of my journal entries after, one day, while I was at lunch I found out my clinical instructor had photocopied my journal –without my permission! Mine was the only one he did this to. I guess it was part of the effort they made to railroad me. Anyway, while I was doing library research I learned that the reason no one ever quotes Henry Kissinger is because he copyrighted everything he ever wrote or said. In this way no one can ever quote him without his permission, which, I suppose, is one brilliant way to avoiding derogatory critique. After I learned that fact I simply copyrighted my whole journal to avoid more unauthorized photocopying. It was probably too little too late. Feel free to copy, print or do whatever you want with it. If it helps someone else then I'll be happy about it. Forgive my handwriting, the pen I was using was pretty stiff. I was writing on wound dressings with it. Sincerely, George Nemecek

I was ignorant of vaccine problems. My son was 10 months old. My assigned pediatrician kept coming twoard me with my son in my arms, as I tried to question her about the shot "in the dark" she was about to shoot up my son with. This waa the DPT shot. My questions were deflected, and in my ignorance I let her shoot him up. Within 20 min he began screaming in an horrific high pitched wailing that continued for 23 hours. He screamed till he was exhausted, then slept, screamed, slept, screamed, slept, till I thot it was over. But it wasn't. For the next week, he would not look me in the eye. He stared at me sideways with suspicion. As far as an infant knows, I did that to him. Mother is god, the giver and taker of all things. When he was 29 years old he told me he had always felt ditachted. He didn't know if he loved his fiancée. My heart is broken. My son is broken. I hate pharmaceutical companies. You are liars and thieves. Do you guess what else I am saying?

I was attending a private (religious) college, as a freshman, and was told by the school nurse that I was "missing" a required vaccination. I was not aware and was not told that I had the right to request an exemption, I was simply told it was mandatory or I would not be allowed to attend classes until I had the shot. I put it off as long as I could, and then gave in when the school nurse took me by the arm and said I could not go anywhere on campus until I came to her office and submitted to the shot.

I'm the Dad who doesn't count. Shared custody, but one parent has to be the "custodial" so my ex makes all the rules and answers to nobody. After I expressed deep concerns over my son getting the HPV vaccine, she went and did it anyway. He's been getting strange rashes and skin blemishes ever since. When it comes down to it, it seems I have a legal right to zero say in anything. I don't count in the eyes of our government for anything more than a support check. I guess my son doesn't count either. Who speaks for these kids with parents who refuse to think for themselves. What a shameful place we have allowed ourselves to be brought to. Maybe they can develop a vaccine that cures complacency. I wonder if they'd all line up for that?

My wife and I decided before our daughter was born that we didn't want to have her vaccinated. There's too much evidence that vaccines are harmful, and we couldn't ignore that. Because we live in a state that doesn't offer religious or moral exemptions we had a very difficult time finding a pediatrician willing to see our daughter. After a long, drawn out battle with the pediatrician from the hospital about vaccines, he finally agreed to see her, if we allowed the HIB vaccine to be administered. Before agreeing to this, I conferred with a doctor in another state whose stance on vaccines was in line with my wife and me. He said the HIB vaccine was safe, though still best to avoid. With this new information I went back to the pediatrician and agreed to the HIB vaccine and only the HIB vaccine. A few months later, and three doses of HIB later, the pediatrician informed me that his lawyer, who is also his son, wanted me to sign a vaccine waver, saying I would in no way hold the pediatrician liable for any illness my daughter might contract. I signed the waver. A month or so later the pediatrician informed me that he could no longer treat my daughter. His lawyer, the same one who came up with the waver, said it was too risky for my daughter to be treated at that office. As a stay at home dad I pleaded with the pediatrician, I told him I could bring my daughter in early in the morning or after hours so the "risk" to other children could be avoided. He would not agree to this. So after three doses of a vaccine I did not want her to have and after signing a waver I was still told I could not bring my daughter in for her check-ups. The pediatrician lied to me. Thank God my daughter had no adverse reactions. I haven't, nor will I, take her to get the last dose of the vaccine.