To the anti vaccers out there...

4 year old Bobby ( not his real name) was a happy and cheerful boy. He used to love going fishing with his daddy and going for an icecream treat with mummy. He loved cartoons, all types of cartoons. He loved his toy cars, and firetrucks. His ambition was to become a firefighter. He loved his family.

But unfortunately now he is lying comatose on a bed in the PICU- with the numerous iV drips hanging around him and monitors beeping continuously at his bedside.  His mother Jane (not her real name), has not left his bedside for the past 24 hours. The eyebags under her eyes are obvious.

It happened all so fast for Jane.  One day, Bobby was happily playing soccer with his neighbours, next day he is lying still on a hospital bed, intubated.

All of a sudden, a nurse who was attending to him screamed out ‘ He is crashing!’ All the doctors and nurses who are in the PICU at the time rush over to his bedside. After frantically trying to resuscitate him they failed . Bobby was pronounced dead.

His mother’s heartwrenching wails could be heard throughout the entire PICU.

During his funeral, she couldn’t even bear to look at his tiny little coffin.

Bobby would never get attend elementary or high school. He would never go to college and graduate. . He would never fall in love, get married and have children and grandchildren.

His life was cut short all because his parents made the decision not to vaccinate him, causing him to contract measles.

His parents are among the increasing number of parents deciding not to vaccinate their child. A family friend told them that a friend of hers had a child who developed autism after measles vaccine. They didn’t know that currently there are no proven studies to state that there is a link between autism and measles vaccine.  They didn’t know that lately there had been measles outbreaks ( e.g Disneyland measles outbreak) all due to the fact parents are unwilling to vaccinate their children.

But now it’s too late. Bobby has already gone to heaven. It could have been prevented.

So to all you parents ( or prospective parents) out there, I have only one clear and simple message for you- please do vaccinate your children. Do not be selfish and assume that others will vaccinate their children so you don’t have to. If everyone has that mentality, there will be a reoutbreak of supposedly eradicated diseases such as measles, polio, and whooping cough, and many children would die from them.

So please vaccinate your child- before it’s too late.

Thank you. J