Where was your infection? If it was near your tailbone, it was probably a pilonidal cyst that became infected with MRSA. Absolutely they can resolve without antibiotics. In fact, the appropriate treatment of an uncomplicated MRSA infection is to open it and let it drain. Often, this is enough and antibiotics aren't necessary.

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Very common. I have no idea about HSLDA though. I have nothing to do with them. Our homeschooling community here is pretty diverse, and mostly a "live and let live" bunch. I don't know anyone who feels like an outcast. :)

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:iagree: I'd also be checking into the school rules. If there isn't a specific rule about hair color, I'd be showing my unconditional love and support by heading right to the school and raising a stink.

:iagree: She's going to do it eventually, right? May as well start now. :)

:lol::lol::lol: Sorry.

I would go. It looks as if there is an abscess (a collection of pus) and the appropriate treatment is incision and drainage (I and D). Even if it's MRSA, the best treatment is to make a small incision and get the junk out. Many doctors will add antibiotics, but most infections will clear up fine with just an I and D, followed up with warm soaks. ETA-- looking at the picture it's hard to tell if there's an abscess or not. The doctor will have to actually push on it to know.

If I were your dd, I would be really interested in what his political views were. I can live with an age difference, and I could deal with religious differences, but if someone had polar opposite political views than me things would come to a screeching halt.

My dd takes Ritalin, and it was clear with the first dose that it was helpful. If you haven't really seen results by now, talk to your doctor.

Yes, and the real tragedy is that this could be almost completely prevented.

The most familiar "Tristan" to me is Sigfried's brother in James Herriot's books.

When did these cases occur? They only started testing for HPV in the late 80s/90s. If it was before that, there is no way to know whether they had HPV or not. Also, there are plenty of false negatives. There are lab errors, recording errors, communication errors, etc. No test is 100% accurate. I have a lot more confidence in the science and data and studies that I read, than in the comments of patients who often don't quite have the facts straight.

There are a handful of cases of girls who have developed an ALS type illness after receiving the vaccine. This is the only thing that gives me pause, and I am curious to see what comes of it. The numbers are vanishingly small, though, and it didn't keep us from having dd vaccinated.

It's a 3 dose course, so that's not 40 million people, it's ~13.3 million people if they all received a full course. Anyone can report *anything* to VAERS; it doesn't have to have anything to do with Gardasil. People report things like death from car accident a week after receiving a vaccine. If you look at the actual cases of serious reactions, most have nothing to do with the vaccine. The great majority of deaths are due to blood clots and pulmonary embolism, most of which occur in girls on the pill, which is a known risk factor for those things. When the numbers are crunched, it turns out those deaths are no higher than expected for that group. In other words, the same number of girls that DON'T receive Gardasil die from embolism at the same rate as those who DID receive Gardasil. It's the pill, not the vaccine, causing it. There have been a few serious injuries, and I think deaths, from girls passing out and hitting their head after receiving the vaccine. They should make the patient stick around for awhile after to make sure they aren't dizzy.

Do you have anything to back this up?:confused: Over 99% of cervical cancers have been demonstrated to contain HPV. There is no such thing as cervical cancer that runs in families. Your risk may be elevated if you have family members with cervical cancer, but that has to do with a general increased susceptibility, not something that actually runs in the family.

:lol::lol::lol: What curriculum is that?

With a sister named Adelaide, he could be a Sydney. Or Melbourne.

That isn't the original article. The original has been removed frrom the FDA site, but Natural News :angry: has a copy here. Using their numbers, I did a significance test, and that is NOT a significant difference between the 2 groups. (Someone feel free to check my math. I know we have some statisticians here. :) I did a Chi square test of proportions using the data in Table 17). Furthermore, Table 18 shows that those 2 groups aren't comparable anyway, since the Gardasil group had more risk factors (smoking, etc.) It's probably something that should be studied further, but just looking at those numbers, there is absolutely no reason to think the vaccine increases risk of dysplasia. I suspect this is the reason it's not on the FDA website any longer. The information is incorrect.

:iagree: But I don't really believe that my kids' presence will be beneficial to the other kids. When dd2 was in first grade, the teacher told us that dd was going to be her "helper". There was a girl in the class who was causing a bit of trouble, so the teacher paired her up with my dd because she thought my well-behaved dd would rub off on her. :glare: Of course it didn't work, the girl continued to be a PITA, and my dd definitely did not benefit from the arrangement. There are a number of things that the schools could and should do to help the less privileged and struggling kids. There's tons of evidence about "what works." It just baffles me why they won't do it.

Great article. I found the comments depressing.

:iagree: I have a dd named Bryn. Most people mispronounce it. :confused:

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I'm glad you went in! :grouphug: