We went to the doctor today to get lil miss vaccinated against Rotavirus.
Unfortunately we are victims of a postcode lottery, where the rotavirus and meningitis vaccines are not free on the NHS, despite the fact that if I lived in the Murcia region (couple miles up the road) it would AND I pay the exact same social security payments to the same effing government.
So we had to pay 76 per dose of the product, each vaccine requires 6 doses so thats a total of 456 (thats near a half a months wages). So we couldn't afford to get it done, until I got my new job.
Lil miss starts nursery this week and she is bound to get it as its the most virulent virus among children, spreads like wildfire even with good levels of sanitation and accounts for most hospitalizations/deaths due to vomiting and diarrhea in babies under the age of 2.
Well apparently not enough studies have been shown to prove that it is of any benefit beyond 6 months,
so they won't give it to her... but Tia nearly died from Rotavirus when she was a baby, and it terrifies me that I will have to sit next to another hospital bed begging my child to live AGAIN!!!
To say I'm just a tad F****D off today is an understatement.
Unfortunately we are victims of a postcode lottery, where the rotavirus and meningitis vaccines are not free on the NHS, despite the fact that if I lived in the Murcia region (couple miles up the road) it would AND I pay the exact same social security payments to the same effing government.
So we had to pay 76 per dose of the product, each vaccine requires 6 doses so thats a total of 456 (thats near a half a months wages). So we couldn't afford to get it done, until I got my new job.
Lil miss starts nursery this week and she is bound to get it as its the most virulent virus among children, spreads like wildfire even with good levels of sanitation and accounts for most hospitalizations/deaths due to vomiting and diarrhea in babies under the age of 2.
Well apparently not enough studies have been shown to prove that it is of any benefit beyond 6 months,
so they won't give it to her... but Tia nearly died from Rotavirus when she was a baby, and it terrifies me that I will have to sit next to another hospital bed begging my child to live AGAIN!!!To say I'm just a tad F****D off today is an understatement.
) will be lucky and escape it xxx
that lil miss doesn't catch the virus 
That's awful, surely if you're having to pay for it anyway because of your postcode it should be up to you whether they give it to her! 
