I really do not like that requirement. I mean, the purpose of mandatory vaccines for school purposes is to reduce spread in schools. While teenagers are certainly active, it’s not like it’s spread by a sneeze.
And, that said, I think it’s stupid NOT to get your kids (of BOTH genders) vaccinated for it. I just don’t think this specific one needs to be required by the school district. When the law was first passed, IIRC, it was ONLY for girls, too.
It does allow you to opt out: “After reviewing educational materials approved by the Board of Health, the parent or guardian, at the parent’s or guardian’s sole discretion, may elect for the child not to receive the HPV vaccine.” - which is what we’d have done, when Moon Unit was 11 or so and the topic came up (and as noted, we DID have her vaccinated a couple years later when there was more of a track record).
I don’t understand how it can be “required”if the parent (s) can opt out at their discretion. None of the other vaccinations seem to allow an opt-out at the parent’s discretion.
HPV isn’t mandatory, but it’s highly recommended, and parents must show that they are demonstrating informed consent in order to opt out.
There’s a family in my city who are on a one-couple crusade to have HPV banned, because they believe it killed their son. We all know that he got the shot, and later that day went to football practice on a 100-degree day and developed heatstroke, and that is why he died. I get that they’re traumatized by this and need to blame something.
Pardon my absence and six finger typing, I had carpal tunnel surgery. $2000 up front. I’m old enough to have a decent salary and insurance and no rent to pay, but what if I worked at McDonald’s? I’d be paying that with interest for years.
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I had carpal tunnel surgery. $2000 up front. I’m old enough to have a decent salary and insurance and no rent to pay, but what if I worked at McDonald’s?
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Well, you might have needed the surgery even sooner with all that repetitive burger flipping.
In states with the ACA Medicaid expansion, you might make out okay (not counting the amount of time you can’t work flipping burgers because you just had carpal tunnel surgery).
To be honest and dramatic they die. A young woman I was aquainted with through my kids and my job. Did just that. She was under 30 and died because she couldn’t afford insulin. She had a baby too. It was very tragic.
There’s absolutely no excuse for that. I’m not doubting you.
Any one who’s poor with a child can get free prenatal care and birthing. And WIC, Medicaid and a number of services.
She certainly would have qualified for free diabetes care especially if she had been recently pregnant. Probably could’ve been on disability.
She either didn’t avail herself of these services or was non-compliant in her care.
The ADA will send you multiple resources. Give you rides. Insulin, needles. They will actually send a nurse to your house.
Really no excuse.
I was talking about insured people and the elderly who’s co-pays are so expensive even with Medicare.
The ADA figures you don’t need as much help with care if you’re on Medicare and a supplement policy.
They do have a new elder program I’ve noticed in the literature I get. I’ve not looked into what help it offers.
Well, I said “baby.” I think her child was around 2 or so? To me they’re babies 'till … 5+. Anyway, this woman was odd and didn’t appear to have much sense.i still think it was tragic. I know that sort of medical assistance is available, but I guess I wonder how accessable it is for odd, not that bright people. U S medical programs for low income can be complicated … and that is an understatement.
By the by, my knowledge of her cod came from her ex-husband, who is a friend of my son.
A 2yo is young for a diabetic mom. We know how stressful those first years are. Diabetes is very impacted by stress, hormone changes, weight changes. All can be an issue with a birth for a couple years.
I was gonna say I realize getting services by government can be difficult. If there are reasons you don’t want home visits or have a vehicle it just adds to it.
Still, she could have walked in any hospital or clinic and they would have immediately given her insulin and a social worker.
The questions might have been a touchy subject.
Who knows.
And she might’ve been kept there awhile til they saw she had a meal.
You just never know why people don’t at least try to get the help they must know they need.
Or at least a loved one to help them get it.
Diabetes kills. There’s no doubt. A young, otherwise healthy enough woman she was able to have a baby would not necessarily die of it quickly, unless they weren’t eating or they were drinking alcohol or using drugs. Alot.
Look at Brett Michaels he drank and used for years before it caught up to him.
Now, it will catch up. Diabetes is a cruel mistress. She don’t play.
When shit starts going, it’s fast and deadly.
I had the rare problem as a young woman as long as I followed the program. I did. Religiously.
All of a sudden (seems like, over the last 8 years)I have a multitude of overlapping problems.
This woman should not have died. I feel bad for her, what ever the reasons were. I feel bad for her kid.
Not fair.
Yes, diaberes sucks, and this girl no matter how foolish she was should not have died.
My hubsters ex. died from it mere days before she got the pump. The whole family, daughters, grandkids, and her current husband, worked really hard to keep her stable, but she died in her sleep. Her husband had fallen asleep on the couch and found her when he came to bed. This stuff just shouldn’t happen. She had excellent insurance and money. It just didn’t get done fast enough.
Oh - and of course those “drug discount programs” explicitly exclude people on any kind of government-funded health care - my father-in-law was put on a pricy medication for his T2DM, and could not get any kind of assistance despite Medicare and a decent gap policy.
Years back, I shared an office with a fellow who was Type 1. I learned a fair bit from him. He told me his biggest fear was someone finding him unconscious, and deciding that it must be because he needed insulin, and injecting him with some. He said the unconsciousness could be from either too high or too low, but too low (especially with added insulin) would make him dead a HELL of a lot faster than being too high.
I never saw insulin in an EMS bag. Maybe your local team carries it because you appear to live in an extremely remote area?
I’m sure you know this, but for the benefit of those who don’t, bringing down a critically high blood sugar too rapidly can also be fatal. Whenever we’d get newly diagnosed patients, or people in extreme DKA (as in blood sugars of 600 or higher, that kind of thing) they would try not to lower it by more than 100 mg/dl per hour, because it can cause, among other things, cerebral edema.