Being clumsy and proprioceptively illiterate, in other words, I was constantly challenged in movement until the pains of being an adult was too much.

Good news is that neural plasticity does in fact work and now I’m moving better than I was and better than most 15 year olds who are still being taught outdated approaches such as stretching the way many of us were taught.

I know, some things take time to learn and understand – and what ground we’ve made.

Changing the brain and applying it through a systematic approach yields wonders and allows us a fuller life and appreciation of it that otherwise is tested.

Certainly the tests can reveal a hardiness yet what other life paths would we choose if we’re more neurologically intact to begin with.

What I mean by that is… the better the wiring, the better or more open our opportunities for positive self-expression.

Move well… otherwise there is a price for propropceptive illiteracy.

Hanna Somatic Educator
http://GravityWerks.com

Fast forward 7 years, ds kicked a hayfork on accident, got a puncture wound, try to find a medical establishment which will give a Td shot to a child without the pertussis component in it. It took almost 2 days before we could find a place which actually HAD the Td, and then MANY phone calls to the pharmacist to try to see if it was possible to actually give Td to a child rather than an adult. The problem with this new idea is it will take options off the table as they phase out the Td in favor of DTaP only giving both adults and children the same combination.

Thankfully this is a shot which I do not also have huge moral problems with, but if they push the envelope with this shot, what happens when they decide that they are going to remove the ability to state medical, religious, moral, ethical, or philosophical objections to other shots?

Another problem with the whole vaccine debate is that both sides are severely polarized and much of the time each spends talking to the public is spent demonizing the other side of the aisle rather than producing evidence that the shots are safe….or not….that they should be morally objectionable or not….etc.

The most informative piece of information I have found on them was the product insert sheet. I know it is prohibitive to read for anyone who does not have a medical background, but when you take the effort, and use a good dictionary to look up the words which are elusive in meaning, you can see exactly what it is that they expect us to inject into ourselves, and our children. Whether the germs are alive or dead, what they grow the disease on, what they preserve the solution with, who the indicated recipient is, and for whom the shot is medically unwise….etc.

That did far more to make up my mind regarding what we do with our children than all of the other sensationalized rhetoric for one side or the other.

I am a nurse, I have worked in Head Start in CA, where much of my time was spent dealing with the immunization status of children, and learning about immunizations (at least what the govt. wanted us to know about them), and as a result of my own additional study, my husband and I have opted to not use most of the available immunizations….Sadly, all of the answers will not be satisfactory to everyone, the government will still want immunized populations, and various people will still want to opt out for a variety of reasons, the answers which reassure one group that mass immunization is the right thing to do are the same answers which start alarm bells going in others’ minds.