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letters to the editor/community bulletin board
february19
2015
Readers
To the Editor,
The 4H program benefits many
of the youth in our county. These 4H
members prepare all year to enter their
projects at the Columbia County Fair in
July. After the fair a ribbon premium
is paid out to these kids, not just as a
reward, but to support them in future
projects. This premium money is not
funded through the 4H program or 4H
tax dollars. The Premium Group’s main
fundraiser is the Barn Bucket concession
stand which operates during the
Columbia County Fair. New volunteers
are needed to prepare for and participate
in this major fundraiser. Without new
volunteers there will no longer be a
group or funding to provide premiums
for our 4H youth. If you are interested in
learning how you can help, contact Lynn
Green, 503-728-4723.
Lynn Green
Clatskanie
To the Editor,
Your action is urgently needed
to protect your right to make informed
vaccination decisions for your children
in Oregon.
I would like to encourage
you to write Oregon State Legislature
representatives regarding Oregon’s
Bill SB 442, on vaccine exemptions.
What ever your stance on vaccines it
is important that Americans keep their
rights to make an informed choice in
what they put into their bodies. On
February 18 th , in Salem, Oregon there
is a hearing scheduled to share your
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opinion on this very important matter.
Please write to your local representatives
and share your opinion.
Here is my story:
My name is Karen Kain; my
daughter Lorrin was vaccine injured on
April 27 th , 1994.
Lorrin was born on March
15, 1994, on April 27 th I took Lorrin
in for her well baby check up. Lorrin
received a DPT vaccine, she then fell
into a deep sleep; two hours later she
woke having a seizure. I took her back
to the pediatrician’s office. During the
examination, she did it again in front of
the doctor, also lasting for five minutes.
This day, my life changed forever.
Fourteen days later Lorrin had
her third seizure and by May 9 th she had
had nine five minute seizures in one day,
which left her body lifeless. Lorrin was
getting worse every day. At four months
of age she was taking 3 different anti-
seizure medications.
In this time we learned that
Lorrin received what is called a “Hot
Lot.” That means that 30 kids had
seizures or worse reported with the same
lot that Lorrin received, there were also
10 surrounding deaths. It is important to
mention here that the drug companies
back then and still do today, scatter the
lots, when mailing them to the doctors’
offices. Lorrin’s lot was scattered all
over the United States so that the same
doctor would not see all the vaccine
reactions. This is legal and approved by
our government.
This was a time before the
Internet. I was isolated and alone. My
only hope was that the National
Vaccine Compensation Program,
(NVCP) would step in and help us.
The fact that they agreed the cause of
injury was vaccine related, was great;
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the next step was to decide how much
money should be given to Lorrin to help
her for the rest of her life. I was very
afraid for her.
The first time I met the team
from the NVCP was at Cedars Sinai ICU.
Lorrin was in the hospital as usual for
uncontrolled seizures. Everything was
taking too long, every day she was alive
she was another day behind. Lorrin was
making no childhood gains, anything
she did was lost immediately with her
constant seizures and drug changes.
I remember the day as if it
were yesterday. I was standing with my
attorney, Mr. Dodd. It was then, that the
NVCP legal/medical team walked in.
The NVCP, sent an attorney and a nurse
who greeted me and went straight to
Lorrin’s bedside crib. They proceeded to
examine her and took her diaper off. I
asked Mr. Dodd what they were doing?
He replied, that they were looking for
bed soars. He told me quite frankly,
“These people are not your friends; they
are trying to prove that you are a bad
parent.” I was stunned. This meeting was
my only hope for my family’s future,
Lorrin’s future.
The only place in America that
Americans are not entitled to due process
is in vaccine court. You cannot sue the
drug company or the doctor and you do
not receive judgment from your peers.
Vaccine court is hidden so that no one
can see what vaccine injured families go
through.
Even though it was agreed
that Lorrin was vaccine injured, it
took three long years to settle with the
NVCP regarding how much money my
daughter’s life was worth. Separated
from Lorrin’s father, I was living with
my mother. We separated due to the
unbelievably stressful situation. He was a
Get all your
Garden Essentials
at the 2nd Annual
Vernonia Community Garden
Fair & Plant Sale
May 9th 9am-3pm
at the Vernonia School Commons
1,000 Tomato Plants,
vegie & flower starts plus
many gifts for Mother’s Day
Interested in being a vendor?
Potluck
No gifts, please
Contact Penny Costley
503-429-0196
Need Help?
Call for meeting times and locations
Columbia Community Mental Health
Call 503-397-5211 -or- 1-800-294-5211
For after hours Crisis call: 1-866-866-1426
http://www.ccmh1.com/crisis.html
Narcotics Anonymous NW Region 503-345-9839
http://portlandna.com/
Alcohol Anonymous NW Region 503-366-0667
http://www.pdxaa.com/
Upcoming
Events
Columbia
County
Chapter
of Oregon Hunter’s
Assoc.
Fundraiser - Saturday, February
28 at the Columbia County
Fairgrounds, 588892 Saulser Rd,
St. Helens. Doors open 5:00 PM,
Dinner served 6:30 PM. 503-396-
5265
Friends of the Library Spring
Book Sale - Friday, March 13 thru
Saturday, March 15. (503) 429-
1818. E-mail: library@vernonia-or.
gov
broken man, our finances were ruined,
and our daughter’s life was at constant
risk from the severe brain damage. We
grieved and coped differently. He was
drinking himself to death. He finally
died December 2003. My little girl,
Lorrin Danielle Kain, died in my arms at
home December 22, 2009.
The NVCP, counts on the fact
that the families are devastated and takes
advantage in every possible way. I am
strong now and as I look back I cannot
believe how unjustly I was treated. If
my daughter was the one in two hundred
fifty thousand injured by a vaccine,
taking a hit for the team, she should be
treated as a hero. My family and I should
have been treated as heroes and held up
high and taken care of. Who knows if her
father would be alive today, if the NVCP
had had any decency at all and stepped
in and supported us through this terrible
time? The Vaccine Compensation
Program should be ashamed. And now
our government wants to make vaccines
mandatory. They do not have our
children’s health in mind; this is not a
battle of what is best for our children it
is a battle about money.
For more information on this
article please go to: KarenKain.
com
Karen Kain
Halfway, OR
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