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Vonu's avatar

In 1976, my RN mother talked me into getting a Swine flu shot with her. Later that day, I developed the most severe pain I'd ever felt in my lower left back, and she took me to the hospital. After spending the night in the hospital with a decreasing Valium drip following a diagnosis of Guillain-Barre syndrome, the next morning I was waiting next to the nurse's station for my mother to finish a consult with the attending and releasing physician. The head nurse told me that I should consider myself lucky to be alive, because they'd had patients come in with less severe symptoms than mine that went to the morgue, and that I should never take another vaccine. I have followed that nurse's advice faithfully.

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Lynne's avatar

What a good nurse

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Constance's avatar

Scary. Thank Heaven you are alive and know the truth.

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Apapach-Arte's avatar

That’s so awful. Glad to hear you were lucky enough to get a nurse that didn’t turn a blind eye 💜

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