Readers are sounding off in the comments all over this Parenting Special Needs blog, but it can be hard to find and respond to those opinions when they're on posts past this main page. To give you an easy view of the outrage and the outreach, here are some of the things your fellow readers have been saying in the past couple of weeks. To join the conversation, click on the link to get to the post, then click on "comments" to read the entire comment and add your own two cents.


"I already keep my daughter?s health records online thru the provider Medefile. It has been a real blessing for us and I even wrote an article about them at The Special Parent. I look forward to seeing what the Google model looks like. To me competition as with most business models benefits us the consumer. I would highly recommend it to any parent of a special needs child." -- Kyron on "Googling Your Child's Medical Records"

"Being able to share medical records across hospitals and physicians is really important. There are still a lot of issues to be worked out but Google?s program and other ones like Medefile are a step in the right direction." -- Brian on "Googling Your Child's Medical Records"

"Pharmaceutical companies make more money on medicine than vaccinating. Even if they did have to pay for autism parents, which vaccines don?t cause, they could make money in the long run with epidemic of children with measles and polio. In the UK measles are reaching dangerous levels because of two few vaccinations and they have similar autism rates.

The children who can?t get vaccinated in the US are protected by the herd. If the levels of immunization become to low you put these children at risk." -- Val on "Should Your Child Get a Flu Shot?"

"We?ve survived a recent round of? something. All four of us got it, but we all got it differently. My beloved husband brought it home from work, where some of those who got it had had the flu shot? I will be more likely to get the flu shot for myself and have my husband get it next year, even though it didn?t help with this round. I don?t want my kids to be sick, and I felt so sorry for them when they were." -- sylrayj on "Should Your Child Get a Flu Shot?"

"My daughter is supposed to be seeing a pm&r to get botox. My daughter has schizencephaly, with that spasticity, is the Botox worth the risk? I'm hearing about all of these side effects and even deaths, it's starting to worry me. But she is just so tight she can hardly function. I'm at a loss here." -- Jane on "Botox Helps Kids With CP (No, Not With Wrinkles)"
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