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Testimony
Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:59:06 PM
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Dear Judge Lipman
Enclosed is my testimony for today's hearing.
Thank you
Jennifer Larson
Jennifer Larson
CEO
Vibrant Technologies, Inc
www.vibrant.com
Jennifer Larson
847 Tonkawa Road
Orono MN 55356
952-956-4999
RE: Written testimony on the immunization rules docket 0900-30570
Dear Judge Lipman
I am a Minnesota resident and am out of town for today’s hearing, but I would like to
submit testimony. I am a small business owner in Minnesota. My company is
Vibrant Technologies in Minnetonka. I also own an autism center for my son and
others as a labor of love, Holland Center in Mtka. I am on board of several local non
profits and active in our community as a volunteer for many organizations.
I write this today on behalf of my son who cannot speak or write. My son, Cade was
a perfectly healthy child who hit all his milestones or better before his 15 month
well baby exam. He was called advanced in areas. He was given a round of vaccines
in October of 2001. His vaccine record is attached. He had suffered mild reactions
to the previous vaccine rounds with inflammation at the site of injections, but this
round was not the same. He was crying when we left the office in Woodbury and
passed out in my arms as I put him in his car seat. Cell phones were not the norm at
this time, and I didn’t want to leave him so I drove home to call the pediatrician’s
office. They assured me that he was just exhausted and that I should just let a
sleeping baby sleep. He slept. He slept for 14 hours. I kept calling the doctor’s
office because of concern. The office assured me that he was fine as long as I could
wake him. I could wake him but he appeared very disoriented. They told me to stop
being an anxiety ridden new mom.
My son woke from that sleep a different child. He stopped looking at me. He began
to cry almost constantly and seemed stressed and unhealthy. He began to reject
food. He started to just pull me by the hand to things he wanted instead of using the
words he had.
In December of that month during the Christmas holiday, he walked up to the
electric fireplace that had been turned off and put his hand on the glass. I assumed
it was cooled because he held his hand there, but it was still hot. It burned his hand
to blisters. He didn’t feel the heat. I could scream his name behind him and he
wouldn’t flinch.
At his 18 month check, I expressed concern. I was told he was just pushing my
buttons and was going into the terrible twos early. Under pressure, I allowed the
doctor to give him his 18 month vaccines. We went home, and he became violently
ill. He had a 105 degree fever and high pitched screaming for hours. He looked at
me, his eyes pleading and cried “mama.” This was the last time I heard him say
“mama” for over 2 years. I completely lost him at this point. He was diagnosed as
severely autistic the next month in Woodbury schools on February 14, 2002. At this
time, he had one word left in his vocabulary, “go,” and cried non stop while trying to
bang his head.
More than ten years later, it’s now clear that Cade, my once precocious infant, will
never be independent. He can’t speak in full sentences. He is not conversational.
He can’t tell me if he’s in pain. There is no doubt in my mind, given the sequence of
events I witnessed first hand, that he was vaccine injured. The doctors assured me
that my concerns were unwarranted and that all the vaccines they were giving him
were totally safe. But the vaccine combination that was given to him has never been
tested in the combinations that he received them. Not only that, they were laden
with toxins like mercury that were clearly poisonous to my child. My son’s future
was stolen from him.
Cade’s story is not a rare one. We have the sickest generation of children in our
nations history. More children are injured than at any time in our history with a
wide range of diagnoses: with autism, ADHD, ADD, allergies, asthma, cancers,
diabetes etc… The list could go on. 54% of children now have a chronic illness.
We’ve traded a modest reduction in relatively harmless infectious disease for an
exploding population of disabled children with chronic illness.
I ask you to consider lessening the toxic burden and assault on our children’s
immune systems by not adding more vaccines to the schedule in Minnesota.
Thank you
Jennifer Larson
Mother to Cade Larson