if your talking about the chickenpox shot then you are crazy. just make the kid get the shot

You have to pay to get blood tests :l Boy do I ever love living in Canada!

I'm sure no one will read this comment, but let me just write... HERD IMMUNITY. HERD IMMUNITY. HERD IMMUNITY. When you choose not to vaccinate your child, you are putting immunocompromised children at greater risk of becoming infected themselves. Their parents must rely on the herd effect so that their children do not die from diseases like chicken pox; a disease that your child may be fortunate enough to survive with minimal effects. They must rely (however unintentionally) on you to vaccinate your child so that their immunocompromised child does not die. You might think your child benefits from the herd effect (and they probably do), but the issue is that when large groups of parents decide not to vaccinate, the whole system is thrown out of order. It relies on a very small unvaccinated group in order to keep the effect going. If no one is getting vaccinated, after all, the disease has plenty of hosts and can flourish. Frankly, I think not vaccinating your children is selfish and dangerous. If your child is able to receive vaccines, they should. Otherwise you're not only putting your child at risk of some very nasty diseases, you're risking the health of children who are immunocompromised. Seriously, it's ******* stupid. You're willing to risk your child dying of preventable diseases because you're afraid of some debunked shit perpetuated by a fraud? And in the mean time, other children could also die from your willful ignorance. Seriously, look at the statistics on measles and pertussis-- hell, even polio. No one thinks of them as a big deal because THEY WERE VACCINATED or they have benefited from the herd effect. They seem like an abstract concept, as mythical as the Spanish flu. The problem is that they are sneaking back up and infecting/killing more and more people every year because in the mean time people would rather blame things like MMR for their child's disability or problems instead of accepting that they happened.

just make him get the shot. no big deal. dont whine. it isnt an fml

And what school does that?

option C. hands down. maybe they'll leave you alone in the future

I'm going to admit, I'm not exactly thrilled with vaccines. Yes, I think they're important. Yes, I am going to vaccinate my children, but not the Chickenpox vaccine. For one, my father, mother, AND brother all had severe reactions to different vaccines (father to Polio, mother to DTP, and brother to MMR) where they all almost died. They all had to spend considerable time in the hospital because of it. I had the chickenpox vaccine, and because of it ended up with Shingles at the age of sixteen that almost caused paralysis on the left side of my face and almost caused me to go blind. I don't know why my family reacts the way they do to vaccines, but I'm willing to take the "relatively" small risk of my children getting sick otherwise for a couple of years as opposed to watching them come that close to death because I vaccinated them so early before their own immune systems were ready for it. Don't go condemning those who don't want to vaccinate just because you think everyone will be just fine. The real world doesn't work that way. And before I hear any shit about how ignorant I am about vaccines, I'm a nurse. I give these vaccines every day. But I also know my own history and my own risks.

How is your life F'd? Just get the blood test and stop complaining, every other parent would have to too. Also, a blood test is a good thing to get every now and then, they could detect something by chance. FYI, all shots are potentially dangerous. It wouldn't have killed him to get it and sounds like it was free.

Get over yourself and sign the waiver.

I noticed that so far as i have read, when discussing the chicken pox virus, people under estimate just how serious the side effects can be, one word............Encephalitis. The "it's harmless and wont happen to my child" attitude is alarming, do you really think they would develop a vaccine if the disease was as harmless as you think?? Even something as simple as slapped cheek can have serious consequences but most of the time that doesn't even require medical attention, however when my daughter had it i still informed others of it as 3 of them fell in the at risk categories and still had to be aware of the possible consequences...