I saw my mother, who did not get vaccinated, suffer with shingles and it was worse than than the multiple myeloma that ultimately killed her. I ran out and got the shingles vaccination the moment they offered it to people under 60. There were no problems for me at all with it.

If you have a compromised immune system, I can understand having concerns about live virus vaccines, but I think the mistrust of vaccines in general is getting out of control in the U.S. The science just doesn't support claims made by anti-vaxxers, especially the stuff about them causing autism in children. And there's no denying that vaccines have saved millions of lives and have prevented the disablement of millions more.

We can all choose what we do concerning this, but I'm going with what the scientists say. If I had to go through what my mother did on top of all the pain and misery of MS, I'm not sure i'd want to stay around for that.