Were fine about it. We don’t have, we feel like theres some concern taken out in the sense that we don’t have to worry about any side-effects. But then again we don’t know. Weve just based our decision on the fact, ‘Well, it’s gone on for this many years and, single, and that’s just the way we prefer to stay with it. She wasn’t distressed. I think we, if, we would have been, if she, after the first immunisation if shed been really distressed then we might be thinking, ‘Oh, my God, maybe we should have gone for the 3-1, then she doesn’t have to go through this again. But she hasn’t been concerned at all about what’s going on. So, no, weve been comfortable with it. She, we were told after the first immunisation also actually that she might have a reaction to it. That was a surprise. And they said, you know, ‘Within seven days, you know, if shes okay, within, you know, after seven days, shell be fine. But again you always kind of wonder as a parent, ‘Well, they say seven days but, hey, my daughter’s, obviously each case is different, she could be ten days. So, you know, for a couple of, you know, for almost two weeks you’re looking at her thinking, ‘Is she okay? Has she got a temperature? Is she, you know, is she swelling or anything like that.

But NHS Direct, okay, I’m on the phone to a government body and I’m asking them and I’m getting the same response. I’m asking, ‘Well, who else can, where can I go to find alternatives?’ ‘Well, like I say, for the MMR you can…. I’m like, ‘You’re not even answering my question. That was incredibly irritating. You hang up the phone and you’re back to square one. And all I can say is you’re resorted back to finding your own information on the Internet.

Which also, to the point which is making doctors and anything the government can supply you with, if you want something different, is redundant. And then it’s a guess as to, ‘Okay, well, which one am I going to take her to?’ I don’t know whether one is better than another, if one is just some kind of room in a basement of somewhere or whether it’s actually a professional doctor’s clinic. You don’t go on any websites that, I did come across one site I think from memory, but I had to pay ’80 to actually get information off it. And I was thinking like, ‘Fair enough, fine. And then the closing tag, just to make the parents feel guilty, ‘Yes, we understand, you have to pay for this, but you can’t put a price on your child’s health. And I’m thinking, ‘Well, thanks for that. That’s really helpful.

So I just kept on going to find information. And I eventually found places that could do, it but again it’s finding information about those people and if they’re, what the service is like. Hence why I saw Harley Street, thinking, ‘Well, okay, you can have really shoddy doctors on Harley Street but, hey, on the whole they’re going to be okay. As opposed to someone suggesting, another website suggesting East Finchley, thinking, ‘Well, Harley Street is a street of doctors. I think I’d better go there. So it is difficult.

And I eventually found places that, that, that could do, it but again it’s finding information about those people and if they’re, what the service is like. Hence why I saw Harley Street, thinking, ‘Well, okay, you can have really shoddy doctors on Harley Street but, hey, on the whole they’re going to be okay. As opposed to someone suggesting, another website suggesting East Finchley, thinking, ‘Well, Harley Street is a street of doctors. I think I’d better go there [laugh]. So this, it is difficult.

It’s difficult to know who to trust.

Who to trust. Theres no kind of information of, of recommendations of who to go to. It really, it’s really difficult.

The reason we decided to go for individual is one, isn’t so much from the reports so much on television about how that doctor was supposedly discredited for his decisions or for the points hed made and all the rest of it was down to the fact, this is, might sound really silly, basically the simple question, when Tony Blair was asked, ‘What’s yours?’ he didn’t answer. That’s really stupid probably but really simple at the same time. If there is nothing wrong, what is wrong with his answering it? So based on, with some other information that we read up and also speaking to friends who were doctors, or friends of friends that had doctors as friends, weve just thought, ‘No. Were going to go for the individual’ when we had to come to it.

They said, after they’d weighed her they said, ‘She is due for her MMR. And because I came at the end of the session the nurse was just kind of lingering around basically. And I said, ‘Yes, but were choosing to do the individual. And then the nurse heard and she walked in and she said, she said, ‘Oh, but, no, don’t worry. Just the one jab, it’s just quick. ‘No. And I thought, ‘I’m not going to get into this with her because I don’t need to. I said, ‘No, no thanks, no were fine. ‘But, now, look, just a, I’ve just got it here. Quick, come on, just come in. It’ll only take a second. Shell be fine. And I’m like, ‘No, I’m really, no, were fine. She said, ‘Oh, come on’ and then she started laughing. And I thought to myself, ‘It isn’t just a quick thing. And she just did not understand. It’s a decision. It’s not about just something quick, kind of, ‘Oh, look, I’ve got five minutes, quick, we can get it done. And I thought, ‘That’s really not the right attitude to have, and definitely not to press someone.