Desiree Jennings runs 8K Race with Disability:
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RESTON, Va. - Desiree Jennings, who has great difficulty walking forwards, completed an eight kilometer run in Reston,...
RESTON, Va. - Desiree Jennings, who has great difficulty walking forwards, completed an eight kilometer run in Reston, VA on Saturday.
Jennings suffers from dystonia, a sometimes severe muscle disorder. Different muscle groups are affected by the condition, and sometimes they are affected differently.
The 25 year old woman, who, until a few weeks ago was a cheerleader for the Washington Redskins, now has tremendous difficulty walking forwards. But she can walk backwards fairly well. And she can run forwards. She also suffers from seizures and has difficulty eating.
Her condition is getting worse. "My neck and tongue are not moving anymore", Jennings told reporters before the race. "They're paralyzed; that started yesterday."
At the beginning of the race, friends on either side of Desiree helped push her forward until she reached running speed. She then could begin jogging on her own, and she completed the eight kilometer course in just under an hour.
Jennings blames the sudden onset of her disorder on a seasonal flu shot she got at a supermarket in late August. She became ill about ten days after the inoculation.
The Food and Drug Administration says it has received no other reports of adverse reactions from that batch of dead-virus seasonal flu vaccine.
Immunology researcher Peter Hotez, at George Washington University, said earlier in the week that flu shots are well researched and very safe. Hotez, who is both an M.D. and a Ph.D., strongly recommends that people in high risk groups get inoculated against swine flu. He warns that pregnant women appear to be particularly susceptible to the H1N1 virus.
"Throughout the country, now, there are pregnant women that are on respirators, on life support, because they haven't gotten the vaccine", Dr. Hotez warned. Asked if his own wife were pregnant, would he recommend the H1N1 vaccination, Hotez replied: "She would be the first in line."
Desiree Jennings is unconvinced of the safety of vaccinations, and is hoping her physicians and consulting doctors from Generation Rescue can figure out a way to arrest the progress of the debilitating condition that has completely changed her life.
GENERATION RESCUE HAS SET UP A SPECIAL WEB PAGE IN DESIREE'S NAME. IT INCLUDES A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM DESIREE, AND MORE ON HER STORY, PLUS LINKS TO FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DYSTONIA.
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"Judging by the videos you have favorited, you seem to just be a wackjob conspiracy theorist, so I doubt anything you believe about the vaccine is credible."
Judging by your YouTube page, how you ignored my comment and the facts surrounding the H1N1 vaccine and started using ad hominems, I think that you are likely a paid shill. Your comment was way too predictable.
I'm not really interested in "conspiracy theories". I'm more interested in proven conspiracies like the H1N1 virus and vaccine.
To Elie721....human will?......adversity?.....and wtf do YOU know about the 2? Really... Hey I had a brain surgery in 06 and could barely move for months and for months after that I got to hobble my ass along like a zombie and take about 6 months of phys therapy...I simply thought it was interesting this woman could go from barely talk to normal in a week..........but hey what do i know right?..not like I didnt have to relearn talking,walking,eating,etc.... ..think before u speak kid.......
in turkey Ministry of Health wants to vaccinate all school students. but their parents dont want this. which one is more dangerous pig flue or vaccine ?
vaccine. the swine flu is really no different than the regular influenza... both cause deaths in severe cases, but not to the unusual extent. in fact, the vaccine actually makes you more vulnerable to the virus. but there's even more to the story... check out my videos for the rest. (it's too much to type).
The name should be "stupidity" instead of what you have posted. You know human will is really something even in the face of physical adversity like what she is obviously going through. How would you feel if the everyday things you take for granted doing were suddenly slipping away from your control, would you fight to do what you could to retain them? I can't believe how insensitive you & others are for thinking she's making this up, & for what? Wow a cheerleader turned to acting disabled, wow!
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Judging by your YouTube page, how you ignored my comment and the facts surrounding the H1N1 vaccine and started using ad hominems, I think that you are likely a paid shill. Your comment was way too predictable.
I'm not really interested in "conspiracy theories". I'm more interested in proven conspiracies like the H1N1 virus and vaccine.
My facts are "straight". If you studied the vaccine, what it contains, its origin and what it does to you, you would not be saying that.
The H1N1 vaccine is far more dangerous than the H1N1 bioweapon.