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My Daughter Died Mysteriously and Suddenly. It’s Hard to Watch Scientists Search for an Answer.
Slate ^ | 2/1/24 | Melissa M. Monroe

Posted on 02/09/2024 12:29:08 PM PST by DallasBiff

On a hot August afternoon, I finished a call with a client as I opened the door to the room of my 2-year-old daughter, Alice. She’d slept a little longer than usual, and I needed to wake her so we could retrieve my 4-year-old daughter, Grace, from school.

I leaned over Alice in her crib, and she was stiff and blue. Bad, bad, very bad ran through my brain. I started CPR, counting two breaths per 30 chest thrusts, and somehow managed to call 911. Eventually, the paramedics arrived. They told me to stand back. I did.

Shortly after, I heard some version of “She’s gone. I’m so sorry.”

I collapsed and realized I was under Alice’s birthday banner, which I had lovingly hung 11 days prior. “She can’t be dead! She just had her birthday! She was fine! What the hell just happened?” I screamed.

I didn’t get an answer to that question. An autopsy, and testing, turned up nothing. Her death was classified as sudden unexplained death in childhood, which means that a cause of death simply cannot be determined. It’s a rare outcome that mystifies scientists—just 400 children a year are classified with SUDC after they die, though it is the fifth leading classification of death in toddlers. And rare means nothing when your child is one of the statistics.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aidskills; died; mysteriously; sids; slate; sudden; suddendeath; suddenly; vax
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To: 9YearLurker

Again, you can believe what you like about the Covid shot. I’m not concerned about that in this thread.

My concern on this thread is that so many people immediately assumed that the child may have died (10 years ago!) due to the Covid shot. That does not seem a rational response, when the facts were there in black and white to read.

(And SIDS is a syndrome that’s probably been with us forever - we still don’t know what causes it, or if there may be numerous causes. But we did develop precautions that decreased it.)


41 posted on 02/09/2024 2:20:53 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: KamperKen

There have always been risks with vaccination of any kind.


42 posted on 02/09/2024 2:23:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

We surely know correlation for many of the cases still occurring, per the government stats I posted for you, but you are apparently impervious to new-to-you information.


43 posted on 02/09/2024 2:23:58 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: DarrellZero

During her pregnancy my daughter in laws doctor was telling her to get the jab.
She told him to pound sand.


44 posted on 02/09/2024 2:24:15 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: 9YearLurker

As I said, I’m not discussing the Covid shot on this thread.

You’re the one who seems obsessed with it.


45 posted on 02/09/2024 2:25:36 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Reno89519

Covid strain “back from the future”

and to the other SIDS disappeared reply-

no it didn’t.

https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm


46 posted on 02/09/2024 2:29:56 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Jamestown1630

I didn’t mention or raise the Covid shot at all.

Maybe you just need a FR timeout.


47 posted on 02/09/2024 2:32:25 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Jamestown1630

“There have always been risks with vaccination of any kind.”

Correct, there have always been risks with vaccinations of any kind and that includes any and all medical procedures as well.

The question is not if there are risks, the question is has the degree of risk increased?


48 posted on 02/09/2024 2:36:30 PM PST by KamperKen (u)
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To: 9YearLurker

You’re the one who mentioned ‘baby jabs’.

If you are against ALL vaccination, that’s fine. But nothing dictates that your crusade has to be mine, too.


49 posted on 02/09/2024 2:39:42 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

My parents lost my sister at age 4 to SIDS, although there really wasn’t a name for it. This was before I was born so I never saw her other than her grave every Memorial Day.
My parents never got over it. My mother was very protective of us kid (me/surviving sister) and my dad, who was an avid photographer, put away all of his gear seldom taking photos later.
So sad, too bad it’s not better understood, but I suppose there are multiple ways for it to happen.


50 posted on 02/09/2024 2:39:58 PM PST by cephalopod
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To: Jamestown1630

Dude (or Dudette), I was presenting data that you don’t want to consider but is relevant.

Do you maybe belong over at DU?


51 posted on 02/09/2024 2:44:32 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: KamperKen

I don’t know. I know that I refused a ‘traditional’ vaccine back in the 1970s because I just had a ‘feeling’ about it; and as it turned out a number of people suffered Guillain–Barré syndrome from that.

I’ve never had a problem with any vaccine I’ve taken, and don’t know anyone who has - but I’m sure that others have.


52 posted on 02/09/2024 2:46:53 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 9YearLurker

That’s very clever.

Have a good evening.


53 posted on 02/09/2024 2:47:24 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Yes, but this child was 2. Once the baby can roll over all that stuff about sleeping one way or another is moot.


54 posted on 02/09/2024 2:52:13 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

I’m not sure what you’re getting at. The article indicates that this child was determined to have died of SUDC - another type of sudden, unexplained death that occurs in slightly older children.


55 posted on 02/09/2024 3:08:41 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

Sounds like a nightmare. God bless them.


56 posted on 02/09/2024 3:10:24 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: DarrellZero

Most 2 years have already had several shots.


57 posted on 02/09/2024 3:14:37 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Jamestown1630

ANY vaccination. kids get them, been happening for decades. stop thinking there is only one type of vax. so what if somme one thought MRNA, all sorts of shots kids get and veers apparently has plenty of reports since 1990’s.


58 posted on 02/09/2024 4:05:21 PM PST by b4me
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To: Obadiah

You are welcome. It would have been helpful if she had started her story with that information.


59 posted on 02/09/2024 4:52:08 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Of course I understand that. My kid got them all. I support true vaccinations.

But not the monstrosity known as the covid vaccination. My job forced me to get it, which was bad enough.


60 posted on 02/09/2024 5:13:03 PM PST by DarrellZero
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