Conversion Disorder: Or How I Convinced My Anti-Vax Friend To Get Vaccinated

By Supermodelsonya

I looked at the phone in my hand. I had just done what I thought was impossible. I actually did it.

I “converted” a “die-hard”.

I had just convinced a friend that was holding out, stating she would never be vaccinated, to get the shot.

I wanted to roll my wheelchair in circles. I wanted to shout at the top of my lungs. I wanted to throw my partially used masks in the air and do a happy dance. I converted one of ye olde faithful!

I used no flashy charts and graphs. I didn’t prepare a lengthy presentation with a question and answer session at the end. I didn’t pound my fist against the Physicians Desk Reference and the Merck Manual as I extolled the virtues of vaccination from a pulpit.

I simply wore my old friend down to the point where she couldn’t stand it any longer.

I remember it like it was two days ago. Actually, it was two days ago that it all happened, but the story goes back a bit further. Like March of 2021. It seems like it was such a long time ago, but it wasn’t.

I stood there with the phone in my hand, in complete shock. This was a very good friend of mine and she just told me that she was diagnosed with…