14 Mary

My Name is Mary.

I was Vax injured by the third Pfizer Covid -19 vaccination onSaturday 26 February 2022.

I am a wife, mother of three sons, daughter, sister. A woman who loved the outdoors, with many interests and I am proud to say I have dedicated most of my working years to the service of others. I am a teacher. I love my job.

In order to keep my job, career and continue providing for my family, I had no choice but to have the vaccine for which like so many others, was mandated. The choice to decide medical treatments was ripped away from myself and thousands of others.

So here’s my story… I write this while resting in bed as I am currently suffering a flare up of my symptoms of this vaccine injury and pericarditis.

Within an hour of having the third Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, I began to suffer adverse effects. I became short of breath, wheezy, light headed, and chest pain started to develop.

Two days later I was at my GP feeling very unwell. I had to leave work early. Short of breath, headache, very high BP. My symptoms were unexplained at that time. I returned to the GP with worsening symptoms over the next three days several times until my husband called an ambulance and I was admitted to hospital 5 days post vaccine with horrendous chest pain, extremely high Bp, heart palpitations, brain fog, dizziness, headaches, muscle twitches, racing heart, breathlessness. There I was diagnosed with Pericarditis related to the vaccine reaction. Sent home with medication and no follow up. I was bed ridden for the next 7 weeks. Unable to work or take care of my family.

My husband stopped work for 5 weeks post vaccine injury – He is self employed, to care for me, our kids and take me to appointments. I could barely walk let alone drive. Two cardiologists, one specialist of internal medicine, various GP visits, naturopath and a herbalist. I was desperate to help.

I was told by one cardiologist that I was crazy, I was suffering from anxiety and to go see a psychologist. The way I was treated by him was rude, degrading and humiliating.

I suffered several episodes of gas lighting from different doctors including another cardiologist at Waitakere hospital who denied that it was a vaccine injury. How could this be when my symptoms started within an hour of having the jab? All these specialists were paid for by my personal medical insurance because ACC were still trying to decide two months post injury and claim whether they were going to help me and assist me. To date I am still tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for lost income and treatment costs. ACC haven’t been any help at all.

The past year has been nothing less than a living nightmare. I still live with this debilitating illness. I live with chest pain everyday . I feel like I’m drowning and can’t get enough air, I have chronic fatigue, sleepless nights, extremely high Bp without medication, heart palpitations, brain fog, dizziness, headaches, muscle twitches, reduced tolerance to noise.

I have lost the lifestyle I used to have pre vaccine injury. This has had a profound effect on my husband and children also.

This past year, I have not been able to talk about my experiences to many. It’s very lonely and isolating. I have been ignored, isolated, made to feel insignificant and called a liar.

It’s still a taboo subject to talk about vaccine injuries. Somehow your not a good person if you didn’t want to ‘take one for the team’ of 5 million. Yet where is the team of 5 million when I need them?

This vaccine was promoted as safe and effective by the government and its agencies. How was it safe for me and the other 68000 people who reported adverse reactions to this experimental vaccine?

Those of us who are now suffering because we did what was expected in order to keep our jobs are shunned, ignored by society and the medical profession. Called crazy, a liar and less than human. We have basic needs that need to be met. I need to receive adequate support and medical care which has been denied because most of the medical profession won’t acknowledge that this vaccine can harm people.

I am NOT an acceptable number in the collateral damage of this pandemic and vaccine rollout. I am a person who has been injured. Why is the NZ government, its agencies and the medical profession continuing to ignore vaccine injured people?

Informed Consent

From: https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/i/informed-consent/#Overview

Informed consent is the process of talking about options so you can make an informed decision about your health care. This includes the option of saying no to a treatment or procedure.

Key points:

You have the right to make an informed choice about your health care.

Informed consent is an ongoing process of talking and asking questions between you, your doctor or other healthcare provider and, sometimes, your family/whānau.

To help you decide whether you want a treatment or procedure, your healthcare provider must give you all the information you need to make up your mind.

This includes how the treatment or procedure would help your health condition and what the risks of the treatment are.
There are a few situations where you may be treated without consent, such as in an emergency.

What is informed consent?

Informed consent is the process of talking and asking questions until you have enough information to make a decision about your healthcare options. This includes the option of saying no to having a treatment (such as medicine) or a procedure (such as an operation).

To give informed consent, you must know enough about your condition and the treatment or procedure your doctor or other healthcare provider has suggested. You must have this information given to you in a language and way that you can easily understand. You should have access to an interpreter if you need one.

You also have a right to have someone else with you to provide support while you are talking about your options.

Why is informed consent needed?

You have a right under the law to make an informed choice about your health care. This is one of your rights under the Code of Health and Disability Consumers Rights.

Under the Code, health care may be provided to you only if you make an informed choice and give informed consent. You also have the right to say no to a proposed treatment or procedure, or change your mind about wanting to go ahead with it.

When is informed consent needed?

Your doctor or other healthcare provider must make sure that you have given informed consent for every proposed healthcare service.

When you are going to have a series of similar treatments, eg, dialysis or counselling, your healthcare provider will talk with you before starting the treatment to make sure you agree to it. The consent you give then covers the whole series of treatment.

If the agreed plan changes a lot, a new consent process is needed.

Examples of situations when informed consent is required include:

when you are having surgery (an operation) or other procedure

when you need to have an anaesthetic

if students or observers are going to be there for your treatment

if you take part in research

when any part of your body will be taken out during a procedure

if you will be getting blood or blood products

if you are enrolled in a screening programme

if your doctor wants to prescribe a medicine that has not been approved by Medsafe for use in New Zealand (called unapproved medicines)

if your doctor wants to prescribe a medicine for a different use than that approved of by Medsafe (also called off-label use).

What type of information should I get for informed consent?

Before giving your consent, your doctor or healthcare provider must fully and clearly explain to you:

how this treatment or procedure will help your health condition

what happens during the treatment or procedure

what other options there might be

what you can expect after the treatment or procedure

any risks that may be associated with the treatment or procedure.

You can also ask any questions you want about the treatment or procedure.

What are the different types of consent?

You will need to give either verbal consent or written consent.

Verbal consent means talking about and saying you agree to a particular treatment. This includes when your doctor prescribes an approved medicine for your condition.

Written consent means you need to fill out a form and sign it to show you agree to a particular treatment. This happens for more significant treatments, such as an operation.

How is informed consent gained for children and young people?

For children and young people under the age of 16, consent may be given by a parent, guardian or other person acting in the place of a parent. Depending on the child’s age, they will be involved as much as possible and information will be given to them in a way that they can understand.

A young person aged 16 years and over can consent to their treatment as if they were an adult.

How is informed consent gained for people who are incompetent?

In legal terms, people who cannot decide for themselves whether they want a treatment or not are called ‘incompetent’. This may be because of health conditions such as a brain injury or dementia.

Consent for people who are incompetent may be given by their welfare guardian or a lawyer who has an enduring power of attorney in respect of care and welfare for that person.

What if I didn’t get to give informed consent?

If you have any concerns about not getting a chance to talk about and make an informed decision about a treatment before it was given to you, you can make a complaint. Read more about the Code of Health and Disability Consumers Rights.