Learned something new!

I was listening to a talk show the other day and a lady was talking about her child who received the MMR shot then was diagnosed with ITP (immune thrombocytopenic purpura disease). She was asking if the shot had caused the ITP. The doctor on the show said yes, it could have caused the ITP. After hearing that I started doing some of my own research and what do you know, I found several websites that said the same thing. The only good thing is that is causes the acute ITP and not the cronic ITP so within a few treatments the children would be fine. I'm now looking back at the time that we were first told about Andrew having this and Dr. Bergamini (Andrew's hematologist) told us we could not get certain shots until it has been a year from Andrew's last treatment (which is also when he was released from Dr. Bergamini's care). I'm guessing now that they do this so that any of the other shots don't knock him back into the ITP. I know I've always heard that certain childhood shots can cause Autism in children, but I never knew that it could cause this disease. I think some of these shots probably cause many other problems but they try to cover them all up so people aren't so afraid of the shots. I think knowing what I know now and after dealing with the nightmare that we dealt with with Andrew, I probably wouldn't have done the shots.