1: My daughter was quarantined for one month. It's enough to be bald and chemo stricken at 8, but add being unable to leave the house.
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2: When we arrived at ped/onc they had to cancel appointments and shut down the infusion room while they sorted out the details of her exposure. The treatment of all the other patients (children with cancer) that afternoon was disrupted.
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3: The exam room we were in had to be shut down and given a "terminal cleaning," disrupting the ped/onc department's ability to serve other outpatient children with cancer.
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4: On the flight home she had to wear a mask. This may not seem like a big deal, but imagine being eight, bald, skeletal, without eyebrows and eyelashes *and* having to wear a face mask in public.
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5: There was a possibility that other children could have been required to have shots of Neulasta to boost their white blood cell counts. The side effects include terrible bone pain. Fortunately, my daughter's WBC count was high enough that no children had to go through that.
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6: Our oncology team spent much time working with state epidemiologists to decide what to do. Both for our child and all the other children in the clinic that day. I cried with relief when the told me none of the other children had to take Neulasta.
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We were lucky it was summer. She didn't have to miss school. She had missed three months while we lived 350 miles away during the first months of chemo. She would have been crushed to miss more.
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Please
#vaccinate
your kids. Please get your #flushot. It's an act of compassion for the many children who need herd immunity because their immune systems are not working.#VaccinesWorkShow this thread
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I'm going to share this, Nicole. Immunization is so important for the health of everyone. And knowing her, thinking back on when she was going through all this, it cheeses me off to think that these extra fears and stresses were added on top of everything else.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This thread should go viral.
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Yes, but it shouldn’t have to.
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