It s pale blue, in a vinyl slip cover, and it says, Massachusetts Lifetime Health and Immunization Record. When you look at it, you probably feel safe.
Most people do.
When she looks at that blue booklet, it brings back a vaccine-reaction nightmare that began three days after she delivered a healthy baby in November 1996. Her baby, Ben, got a hepatitis-B shot when he was one day old on November 6, in Falmouth Hospital. Three days later, on his first night home, he began screaming uncontrollably, arching his back, turning blue. A nightmare for Jim and Judy Converse not to mention poor Ben began. It receded in agonizingly slow stages, as the Converses went from pillar to post with no one able to say what was wrong with Ben.