One of world's smallest preemies going home...

[takncarabizniz]

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-01-20/Tiny-baby-gets-Hollywood-treatment-as-she-leaves-LA-hospital/52693188/1
 
Wow...looking at that picture, it's hard to imagine a tot that small...I wish this family all the best and success in completely, health-scare free future...
We took our preemie home at 4 lbs, 11 oz...and he's now a strapping 22 year old Naval Chemist...his only ongoing problem is chronic bronchitis, which hasn't slowed him down a bit.  He's an Ironman triathlete, and is incredibly intelligent. 
 
The advances in neo-natal medicine have made leaps and bounds since his birth, I am sure this little girl will have excellent care...

[sine-qua-non]

chronic bronchitis?

probably caused by vaccinations

they cause a lot of later health problems

[takncarabizniz]

No...he had the problem from birth due to underdeveloped lungs...and a possible infection his first winter when he was just a couple months old.  Luckily, now his bouts never last more than a few weeks, and he only suffers occasionally...his decision to strengthen his lungs through body conditioning has been a very fruitful, natural remedy...
 
 
 
 

[Oz]

Good for her!


No, sine, vaccinations don't cause bronchitis...

[sine-qua-non]

Chronic Bronchitis doesnt come from being immature, it comes from infections

lots of other premmies dont have CB

vaccinations have been shown to cause health problems later in life

besides the fact that they dont work [CDC] and are full of poison

[Oz]

Yes, it's a shame that polio vaccines don't work.. or DPT, or measles vaccines, or flu vaccines, or mumps vaccines......

It's also good you know more than doctors or scientists...

[sine-qua-non]

Odd, the CDC says that flu vaccines wont keep you from getting sick

get your head outta your ass or stop making foolish comments here

that make you look ignorant and foolish!

[takncarabizniz]

No a lot of other preemies don't...but in 1989, living in rural Montana, 70 miles from any hospital, I don't know how immature his lungs were at birth.  I do know he was on oxygen for several days and his neo-natalogist believes the CB could well have been due to his immature lungs and a possible early stage infection...and no other pediatricians or doctors have argued otherwise.
 
I didn't argue w/ them then or now...it's really his only ongoing evidence of any prematurity...otherwise, he is in exceptional health...
 
 

[sine-qua-non]

.otherwise, he is in exceptional health...




Yep, they catch up and except for maybe flat heads, you couldnt know the difference!

[takncarabizniz]

Funny you say that because when he was about 6, we were waiting for the bus at the hospital (his little brother spent years in speech therapy after suffering a stroke at birth), and this very, very old lady sitting near us struck up a conversation about the boys...she asked how premature Thing1 was, and I was surprised and asked her how she knew he was a preemie...she said she had been an RN decades before and she could tell by his thin jaw and head shape...that thin jaw gave us fits w/ him as a teen as he would grind his teeth and ended up needing an expander and braces to realign his jaw and teeth...
 
weird...