Comments on: New Data, same excuses http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/ Extra Large, Extra Strong... without being bitter Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:24:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jasi http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-7377 Jasi Mon, 19 May 2008 13:13:30 +0000 http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/#comment-7377 Awesome that it's available. I'm just a little cautious as it's so new and there haven't been any long-term studies on it yet. I'm feeling fortunate that my daughter is only 2 now so I have some time to watch the effects before I commit. But I still think it's a good idea. Here's what's got me scratching my head though... Why isn't it offered to boys? If it's "transmitted" during sex, wouldn't they be the umm.. transmitters? If they can care enough about a girl to sleep with her, shouldn't they care enough to protect her from an array of horrible diseases? Imagine being a boy in love and finding out you'd just given her HPV (with cancer a possible eventuality)!!? Horrible!!! If it's safe and available, both of my children would receive this vaccine, boy and girl. Awesome that it’s available. I’m just a little cautious as it’s so new and there haven’t been any long-term studies on it yet. I’m feeling fortunate that my daughter is only 2 now so I have some time to watch the effects before I commit. But I still think it’s a good idea.

Here’s what’s got me scratching my head though… Why isn’t it offered to boys? If it’s “transmitted” during sex, wouldn’t they be the umm.. transmitters? If they can care enough about a girl to sleep with her, shouldn’t they care enough to protect her from an array of horrible diseases? Imagine being a boy in love and finding out you’d just given her HPV (with cancer a possible eventuality)!!? Horrible!!!

If it’s safe and available, both of my children would receive this vaccine, boy and girl.

]]> By: Sharpie http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-6731 Sharpie Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:42:39 +0000 http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/#comment-6731 Perhaps if these women watched their friend die slowly, painfully and horribly - ripped away forever from her 2-year daughter who would never even remember her - they might think the shot was a good idea. I had the displeasure of doing just that four years ago. My friend's cervical cancer took her from her family and friends and to think there is a chance of preventing the disease from taking even one more girl far outweighs anything that may or may happen down the road. I wish that not one person has to watch someone die from cervical cancer - because it ain't pretty. Perhaps if these women watched their friend die slowly, painfully and horribly – ripped away forever from her 2-year daughter who would never even remember her – they might think the shot was a good idea. I had the displeasure of doing just that four years ago. My friend’s cervical cancer took her from her family and friends and to think there is a chance of preventing the disease from taking even one more girl far outweighs anything that may or may happen down the road.

I wish that not one person has to watch someone die from cervical cancer – because it ain’t pretty.

]]> By: Kris http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/comment-page-1/#comment-6705 Kris Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:18:52 +0000 http://tripleventi.com/2008/03/12/new-data-same-excuses/#comment-6705 Personally my daughter doesn't need to know WHY she's getting the vaccine, other than the fact that it's to help keep her from getting a bad disease - the same reason we vaccinate against smallpox and measles, mumps, and rubella. She's old enough to read about it on her own, of course. And she likely will. But she also knows what cancer is and how it can kill. Her "Aunt Cindy" had to have a hysterectomy due to cervical and uterine cancer, and now she also has leukemia, so I'm sure she's not going to question it. And yes, we do hope they save themselves for marriage, but who's to say there isn't another method of transmission found years or even months from now? (Things change - and they find new ways that all kinds of diseases were transmitted as time goes on. KWIM?) Personally my daughter doesn’t need to know WHY she’s getting the vaccine, other than the fact that it’s to help keep her from getting a bad disease – the same reason we vaccinate against smallpox and measles, mumps, and rubella.

She’s old enough to read about it on her own, of course. And she likely will. But she also knows what cancer is and how it can kill. Her “Aunt Cindy” had to have a hysterectomy due to cervical and uterine cancer, and now she also has leukemia, so I’m sure she’s not going to question it.

And yes, we do hope they save themselves for marriage, but who’s to say there isn’t another method of transmission found years or even months from now? (Things change – and they find new ways that all kinds of diseases were transmitted as time goes on. KWIM?)

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