The New Epidemics 4
“The following is a letter from Karen Kaine who reports her new-born daughter Lorrin developed uncontrolled, repeated seizures immediately after having a diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (DPT) vaccination. Her saga is one of trying to gain a fair settlement from the secretive National Vaccine Compensation Program, (NVCP), the US government-run “vaccine court.” Her daughter Lorrin ultimately died from the many complications that Karen Kaine feels were a direct consequence of the “routine” vaccination. In the following open letter, she offers her story for other parents in hopes that they will not succumb to the same mix of tragedy and injustice.”
“My name is Karen Kain; my daughter Lorrin was vaccine injured on April 27th, 1994.
Lorrin was born on March 15, 1994. Becoming a mother was the best thing that ever happened to me; for the first time in my life I felt complete. Lorrin was so beautiful. When she was born the nurses told the hospital staff to check out the precious newborn in the nursery; I was very proud.”
“On the morning of April 27th, I was holding Lorrin, she looked up at me and gave me the biggest smile. I had no idea that this would be my first and last smile for a long time. That day I took Lorrin in for her well baby check up. Lorrin received a g, she then fell into a deep sleep; two hours later she woke screaming and shaking. I held her in my arms as far as possible away from me, as her tiny body shook. This lasted for five minutes. When she stopped, I ran to the bathroom and vomited.”
“Now, I was afraid for my new baby. 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. I screamed at the doctor telling her to make it stop. I was told that Lorrin was having a seizure and she sent me to the hospital. This day, my life changed forever.”
“Fourteen days later Lorrin had her third seizure and by May 9th she had had nine five minutes seizures in one day, which left her body lifeless. My Lorrin was getting worse every day. At four months of age she was taking 3 different anti-seizure medications. After nine days of being in the hospital her neurologist told me, ‘Mrs. Kain, your baby is retarded. Look at her!’ I was devastated. Until this time the doctors told me that sometimes babies have seizures but generally they grow out of them.”
“The one good thing that came from this visit was the first conversation with a CDC (Center for Disease Control) specialist. This doctor told us that Lorrin was having a typical vaccine reaction to the DPT. This surprised us, as doctors would not discuss Lorrin’s vaccine injury. My husband and I did our research and found Andrew Dodd to represent Lorrin. He was the only attorney at the time in our area, who specialized in the vaccine injury field. We then found Dr. Menkes to be her neurologist.”
“We Learned Many Others Were Affected”
“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 had had, there were also 10 surrounding deaths. It’s important to mention here that the drug companies back then and still do today, scatter the lots, when mailing them to the doctor’s office. 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.”
“On the day that I received the letter stating that the government agreed that the DPT vaccine damaged Lorrin, I was sick to my stomach. I was told that this was a huge accomplishment, but I felt in my gut that we were in for a long and difficult journey. Lorrin never slept and cried all the time, when she wasn’t crying she was having seizures. I was shoveling all kinds of different medications into her tiny body. It felt like I was living in hell, my husband and I were fighting over money and treatments for her. It didn’t matter what we did for her, she kept on having seizures. We were in and out of the hospital with no hope in sight.”
“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; 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. Her father was in great denial about her condition, but I stayed home with her and watched her seizures. It was me who went to the doctor’s office always receiving the bad news.”
“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. I waited with great anticipation. 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. Dr. Menkes, who wrote the book the doctors studied to become a doctor, told me that she was one of the worst seizure cases he had treated.”
“I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was standing with Mr. Dodd, wearing baggy sweats after another sleepless night in the ICU; I never left Lorrin’s side. It was then, that the NVCP legal/medical team walked in. It was an awkward moment to say the least. 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. I did not speak after that.”[1]
[1] https://healthchoice.org/karen-kain-tells-the-story-of-her-daughter-lorrin-who-was-vaccine-injured/