「故事·听力」My Anti-Vaxx Mom Almost Killed Us All

My Anti-Vaxx Mom Almost Killed Us All

Hey, I’m Chris, I’m 16 and my mom thought I was a rebellious teenager. You know why I was “rebelling”? Because she wouldn’t let me use any traditional medicine or get vaccinated. Wow, I'm such a rebel! But she doesn’t think that anymore, because I proved her wrong. 

Okay, so here’s the deal. When I was 13 or 14 my mom believed in “natural” medicine, like oils, plants, and HEALING CRYSTALS. She was also against vaccines, so yeah, I was unvaccinated for a long time. 

My mom was so outspoken about all of this that every time any of my friends would come over, she would start telling them about the healing powers of crystals and how vaccines are all big conspiracy of greedy doctors. My friends would nod and say, “Yeah, mhm, yeah,” and I would be SO EMBARRASSED I would just cover my face with my hands and silently cringe. 

And of course, she would always post stuff on the internet about how dangerous vaccines are and how healthy I was. She could literally spend HOURS doing that. But it wasn't true.

The worst things would happen when I would get sick. She would try to “heal” me with crystals and make me drink some weird tea and stuff like that. And I would get sick a lot, because, you know, we wouldn't use ANY NORMAL MEDICINE OR VACCINES. 

Here’s a secret: HEALING CRYSTALS DON’T WORK. It’s all a scam! 

I would spend way too long trying to heal from the simplest sicknesses, like the flu. And it got to the point that I was afraid to even go outside during winter. 

My Mom would constantly hang out with other women who were into this stuff. So after a while, she even started to talk about these kin- of lizard people who want to take over the world. It was becoming truly unbearable, because I felt like she was going crazy and every time I tried to talk to her about it she would just say that I was brainwashed. 

But all of that changed in just one week. Well, not all of it, but most of it.

One day, my Mom got seriously sick. You see, she didn’t get sick very often. She had a strong immune system (because HER parents treated her like a normal person when she was younger and got her things like medicine and vaccines). 

But this time, she was coughing constantly, so of course she was trying to use her oils, plants, and CRYSTALS to “heal” herself. And surprise, it didn’t help! She was getting worse every day. At first she was just coughing, but then she developed a fever, she was sweating, and she had chest pains. 

I was saying to her “Mom, PLEASE, let’s go to the doctor,” and she would answer in her loopy state “no, no, it’s all a big conspiracy, it’s just all the bad stuff coming out of my body, you know, the toxins.” I was FURIOUS and PANICKING at the same time, because my Mom was acting stupid and I couldn’t do anything about it.

Or could I? Yes, it wasn’t possible for me to just buy her medicine, and we didn’t have anything at home, but at least I could ask my friends to bring me some from their homes. They did, and I was hiding some of it in my Mom’s food.

Yeah, this may sound unethical or whatever but I don’t care, it was like she was dying! I had hoped that the medicine would help, but she actually found out about it, maybe she could taste it. In her confused state, she actually got up from her bed and came to my room, all pale and sweaty, and said in a very rough and sickly voice…

“CHRISTOPHER...did you try to POISON ME?”

It would be funny, if it wasn’t so scary. She was like a zombie. For a second I really thought that this was the end, the zombie apocalypse had begun, and it was all caused by those stupid CRYSTALS. 

And then she suddenly lost consciousness and fell down. It wasn’t funny anymore. I was panicking, I tried to wake her up and was screaming, “Mom! Mom!” but she wouldn’t wake up. I immediately called an ambulance and tried to explain the situation as best as I could, but I was still panicking until an operator calmed me down and I was able to explain everything.

An ambulance came and took my Mom to the hospital, and I was panicking all the way there, thinking that my Mom might die. It turns out that she had pneumonia and they began her treatment immediately.  

The doctor said that it was a MIRACLE that I didn’t get infected myself, but it wasn’t a miracle. In fact, I was very careful around Mom, always wearing a mask and disinfecting myself in every way I could. 

After some time, when she was feeling a little better and in a normal mental state, I finally got to talk to her in her room. She looked at me, smiled, and I almost wanted to cry because my Mom was fine. But then I wanted to cry because she immediately disappointed me.

“Chris... bring me... my crystals…”