These are the letters I sent to my son's neurologist after I decided they were not interested in my son's recovery.
Dear Dr. XXXXX
I just wanted to take little time to thank you for Chase’s treatment. You see if it wasn’t for you and your tenacity, we might still be on the Ketogenic diet and not enjoying the beginning of nine months seizure free. I was the mother who wanted the diet first before Tegretol but in your desire to follow protocol to the letter, you forced me to look for alternatives to your care. Since everything always works together for good, I found that care in Drs XXXX and XXXX. With their help Chase stopped seizing three weeks after our 1st visit. I prefer this time frame to that of Tegretol. If I’m not mistaken, that was two years, plus wean seizures? Anyway Chase is great. I can see no lasting damage. He is learning in leaps and bounds and is talking up a storm. So I again thank you for not giving in to my wishes, holding fast to your belief in drugs and sending me on my way. It was the best thing that could have happened to Chase.
Sincerely,
Wendy Callahan
Dr. XXXX,
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for Chase’s treatment. If it wasn’t for you and Dr. XXXX he might still be on the Ketogenic diet and not enjoying our eight months and counting, seizure free days. Luckily you and Dr. xxxx refused to put him on the diet and I was adamant about not having him on Tegretol, so this divergence forced me to make a choice between listening to you and finding another doctor. Wisely it seems, I chose the latter. It only took 3 weeks to seizure free! I will sing praises for Doctors xxxx and xxxxx for the rest of my life. I was the mother you spoke to in December about what I considered vaccine damage to my son. The fact that his seizures have stopped only reinforces my belief it was vaccine damage. I remember how nice you were in offering to educate me on how wrong my theory was! I decided to educate myself instead starting with my what you need to know sheet from my pediatrician. It states that 6 out of 10,000 will have seizures from this vaccine. So that’s 3 out of 5,000 or 1.5 from 2500! If the lottery had odds like that I’d play it. I found enough information on the Internet written by Doctors on the other side of the issue to fill a 38-page paper I wrote to help assuage my pain. Before you try and educate anyone else why don’t you look for yourself? Take any Internet search engine and put in vaccine damage and a wealth of information presents itself. I never wanted vaccines to be the cause of my son’s problems mainly because it was me who held his leg while he received the shots. I didn’t want to be wrong about something I had allowed and participated in. I took a two-hour class in car seat installation at 9 months pregnant, but didn’t take 5 minutes to research vaccines. For this I can never forgive myself.
I’m not sure why you do not want to implicate vaccines in seizure activity in children when it is stated so clearly on the fact sheet. I guess you must deny the link or people would find out what vaccines are all about then they would be stopped or made safer and without seizing children, you might be out of job. I still have questions to this day as to why you couldn’t put my child on my preference of treatment. I wanted a drug free diet first before we tried drugs not after they failed. This makes no sense at all unless pharmaceutical companies have some hold over you. Maybe the kickbacks are just to good or maybe you’re like the doctor on the news a few weeks ago who is being sued for 7 million dollars because he refused to say their new drug he was doing a study on works well in AIDS patients when it didn’t. How sad to be a puppet for the drug makers.
Anyway I won’t continue. I’m sure you’ve got kids to drug. My neighbor’s child is seizing soon after his vaccinations and he’s coming to you for help. You can tell his parents just like you told me it’s just a coincidence.
Sincerely,
Wendy Callahan
Dear Dr. XXXXX
I just wanted to take little time to thank you for Chase’s treatment. You see if it wasn’t for you and your tenacity, we might still be on the Ketogenic diet and not enjoying the beginning of nine months seizure free. I was the mother who wanted the diet first before Tegretol but in your desire to follow protocol to the letter, you forced me to look for alternatives to your care. Since everything always works together for good, I found that care in Drs XXXX and XXXX. With their help Chase stopped seizing three weeks after our 1st visit. I prefer this time frame to that of Tegretol. If I’m not mistaken, that was two years, plus wean seizures? Anyway Chase is great. I can see no lasting damage. He is learning in leaps and bounds and is talking up a storm. So I again thank you for not giving in to my wishes, holding fast to your belief in drugs and sending me on my way. It was the best thing that could have happened to Chase.
Sincerely,
Wendy Callahan
Dr. XXXX,
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for Chase’s treatment. If it wasn’t for you and Dr. XXXX he might still be on the Ketogenic diet and not enjoying our eight months and counting, seizure free days. Luckily you and Dr. xxxx refused to put him on the diet and I was adamant about not having him on Tegretol, so this divergence forced me to make a choice between listening to you and finding another doctor. Wisely it seems, I chose the latter. It only took 3 weeks to seizure free! I will sing praises for Doctors xxxx and xxxxx for the rest of my life. I was the mother you spoke to in December about what I considered vaccine damage to my son. The fact that his seizures have stopped only reinforces my belief it was vaccine damage. I remember how nice you were in offering to educate me on how wrong my theory was! I decided to educate myself instead starting with my what you need to know sheet from my pediatrician. It states that 6 out of 10,000 will have seizures from this vaccine. So that’s 3 out of 5,000 or 1.5 from 2500! If the lottery had odds like that I’d play it. I found enough information on the Internet written by Doctors on the other side of the issue to fill a 38-page paper I wrote to help assuage my pain. Before you try and educate anyone else why don’t you look for yourself? Take any Internet search engine and put in vaccine damage and a wealth of information presents itself. I never wanted vaccines to be the cause of my son’s problems mainly because it was me who held his leg while he received the shots. I didn’t want to be wrong about something I had allowed and participated in. I took a two-hour class in car seat installation at 9 months pregnant, but didn’t take 5 minutes to research vaccines. For this I can never forgive myself.
I’m not sure why you do not want to implicate vaccines in seizure activity in children when it is stated so clearly on the fact sheet. I guess you must deny the link or people would find out what vaccines are all about then they would be stopped or made safer and without seizing children, you might be out of job. I still have questions to this day as to why you couldn’t put my child on my preference of treatment. I wanted a drug free diet first before we tried drugs not after they failed. This makes no sense at all unless pharmaceutical companies have some hold over you. Maybe the kickbacks are just to good or maybe you’re like the doctor on the news a few weeks ago who is being sued for 7 million dollars because he refused to say their new drug he was doing a study on works well in AIDS patients when it didn’t. How sad to be a puppet for the drug makers.
Anyway I won’t continue. I’m sure you’ve got kids to drug. My neighbor’s child is seizing soon after his vaccinations and he’s coming to you for help. You can tell his parents just like you told me it’s just a coincidence.
Sincerely,
Wendy Callahan
