I have some friends (who live in South Minneapolis) whose child was diagnosed with cancer last month and is having chemo right now (it's an insanely rare form of cancer, almost never found in children.) (Actually, technically he is between rounds of chemo.)
Here is my question. I am pretty sure his parents vaccinated him fully back before he got sick. Does the immune suppression of chemo make you vulnerable to things you SHOULD be immune to (like measles, if you were vaccinated) or just extra-vulnerable to things you are not immune to (like colds)? I am so, so worried about this child.
I really should just quit worrying about the measles killing him and worry about the fucking cancer. It kills 50% of the adults who get it. It's so rare in children they don't even know what his odds are. It's possible that fantasizing about doing violence to Andrew Wakefield is distracting me from worrying about this kid dying of cancer...
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Date: 2011-03-22 10:08 pm (UTC)Here is my question. I am pretty sure his parents vaccinated him fully back before he got sick. Does the immune suppression of chemo make you vulnerable to things you SHOULD be immune to (like measles, if you were vaccinated) or just extra-vulnerable to things you are not immune to (like colds)? I am so, so worried about this child.
I really should just quit worrying about the measles killing him and worry about the fucking cancer. It kills 50% of the adults who get it. It's so rare in children they don't even know what his odds are. It's possible that fantasizing about doing violence to Andrew Wakefield is distracting me from worrying about this kid dying of cancer...