MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN





Recently, I was in my local chemist’s getting a prescription when a harassed-looking mum came in with her screaming baby. The poor mum looked like she was going to cry herself as she tried in vain to console her baby.

The baby’s cries sounded desperate and was quite upsetting to listen to. It wasn’t your usual screaming baby where you know that the baby is vying for his or her mum’s attention and you’re secretly thinking: ‘please shut up because you’re beginning to give me a headache.’ No, this baby’s cries sounded different. Even the customers standing nearby appeared alarmed by the screaming baby. So much so in fact, that somebody came up to the mum and asked her if her baby was all right. To which the young mum replied, ‘I don’t know. My baby hasn’t stopped crying since he had his vaccination this morning (it was now late afternoon). I’ve taken him to the doctor’s, but she said that he was fine. I don’t think my baby is fine, this isn’t normal.’

On hearing this, I suddenly felt sick to the stomach as I instantly recalled how my severely autistic sister reacted shortly after having her vaccinations as a baby. My sister’s reaction was almost identical. I looked again at the young mum who couldn’t have been older than 21 and I looked at the baby who looked so small and helpless. I felt a deep sense of love and sorrow for them both.

I prayed frantically that evening, asking God to make the baby OK. Tears were falling down my cheeks as I thought about what sort of life the young mum and her child would have if autism was to be their fate. I couldn’t bear to think any more about it.

I feel nothing but anger and hatred towards the drug companies who have destroyed thousands of lives all around the world. And I hate the newspaper editors even more for pandering to the drug companies by allowing publication of their pathetic measles-is-on-the-increase press releases that frighten parents into having their children vaccinated. How these people can sleep at night I really don’t know.

I am 100% convinced that it was the vaccinations my sister had that day which caused her ‘autism’. Nothing can convince me otherwise. And I am also 100% convinced that the drug companies know that childhood vaccinations can cause autism.

At the end of the day, as far as the drug companies are concerned, I believe it’s all about money. I believe it’s never, ever about putting people’s lives first.

As I was praying to God that evening to make sure that the baby would be OK, I did ask God if he would give those who work for the drug companies a conscience. After all, you never know, miracles can happen...


Copyright Donna Antoinette Coleman 2006