“It wasn’t like a switch being turned off….It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down.”
I’ve read this quote from Dr. Jon Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, in more than a few news stories and most recently in one today in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Poling uses the metaphor of a dimmer switch to describe how his daughter changed after receiving five vaccines at the age of 18 months:
Almost immediately after, she was screaming, feverish and irritable. Then her behavior gradually changed so she would stare at fans and lights and run in circles.
Dr. Poling’s choice of metaphor—-that …read more