Updated: 11/15/2009 8:36 PM KSTP.com | 
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By: Mark Albert
Hear Stephanie Lee Talk About Her Daughter
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Lily Doherty loved to wave.
She would shake her hand at anyone who wandered by.
But when her leg began to shake, and then her head, and finally, her entire body, her mother knew something was horribly wrong.
The seizures began eight days after Lily's second set of immunizations. A third set of immunizations made the seizures worse, her mother says, until Lily died on Oct. 11, 2002.
She no longer vaccinates her surviving two children.
"Some might say I'm just being hysterical," Stephanie Lee said recently at her Finlayson home. "Well, I guess that's my option. If I've already had one die, how many other parents would say, 'oh, let's line the other two up?'"
