6 year old injury

and the incompetence of our 'health' system

Here’s a heartbreaking story (from Instagrams jab_injuries_australia) of a struggling mum dealing with her sons vaccine injury and the incredible incompetence of our so called ‘health care’ system…

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My name is Audrey and I’m writing my 6 year old son Sean’s story. Sean was a happy healthy, active child. He had mild asthma and has autism, nothing which would not have had any link to his now current injury.

As a mother, I decided to get Sean *** because we needed to move back to Ireland, it’s complicated but I need to be with my family as I’m all alone here. My other son who’s 9 also has a rare disease called Hirschsprung which according to the narrative and governments advice we thought that he was as risk, so at the end of the day I decided for all of us to be protected and back to where we need to be and that we should all get the ***. I never thought in a million years that I’d be sitting here but boy was I wrong.

Sean got the *** on the Friday the 4th of February 2022. That night he was complaining of a headache, he was a bit unsettled so we gave him some Panadol and he went off to sleep fine. The next day (Saturday) he was extremely lethargic and not his usual self with more headaches. We didn’t really think much of it as this point and I thought he was a little anxious about school because he was just starting. The next day (Sunday) he had a bit of diarrhoea and the headaches and lethargy continued. At this stage it crossed my mind that he did just have the *** but because he was presenting a ‘commonly known’ side effect I wasn’t too alarmed at the time.

On Monday Sean went to school for the first day of year 1 and he came home lethargic again with headaches, this is when I started to ask more questions, Sean had never had headaches before. That night he woke up upset and unwell for 3 hours, we just couldn’t get him to sleep.

Tuesday Sean took a turn and started vomiting, getting temperatures and sore arm pits (lymph nodes) so we called health direct. I said that I thought it might be a reaction to the *** and they told me to take him to ED. When we arrived the first thing I did was notify the nurses that I thought my son was having an adverse reaction to the ***. He was monitored for a few hours and then discharged with the diagnosis of Gastro. They told us to keep on doing what we were doing and to give him Panadol and keep the fluids up. If he wasn’t to get better in 5 days time, to come back.

Upon arriving back home Wednesday morning Sean continued to vomit all day long with all the other symptoms mentioned above. Thursday the same symptoms were occurring but this time his arm pits were noticeably swollen so I contacted the hospital to tell them what was happening, they told me to go into a walk-in because they were so busy. Once we got to the doctor he completely dismissed us and treated me like I was stupid to even think that this was a reaction to the ***. The doctor treated Sean with nasal spray and said his was vomiting because of the sinus and the snot in the back of this throat along with Gastro but that was it. I was a bit worried about his dehydration but the doctor said he looked fine.

Friday, nothing had improved and his temperature rose to 42c [107.6F], I was doing all the things that the doctor told us to do (treating for Gastro) and I couldn’t get his temperature down. Even though Sean was experiencing much discomfort, he was so lethargic that he was bed ridden and sleeping through it all. This continued through to Sunday morning when we noticed he started to break out in a rash, his ear lobes were swelling and he was telling me he couldn’t hear properly - so we returned to ED.

When I got in there I made it clear we weren’t going anywhere unless we got proper testing, I was telling them ‘this is not Gastro! this is a reaction to the ***’. They ran bloods, heart trace and a urine sample. As they were just about to admit him the results came back clear and the paediatrician said he was all good and could go home, even to stop the nurses from doing further observations which I interrupted to say ‘no you have to check his temperature at least’. They tested his temperature and it was 37.8c [100.04F] and they still send us home.

We got home about 6:30pm and we put him to bed by 7:45pm. Something got to me and I decided to walk back into his room 10 minutes later to find Sean having a severe seizure in his bed, he was gone. Half of his body was soft and the other half was clenched stiff with his eyes rolling in the back of his head and foaming out the mouth. We called 000 and the ambulance came in about 15 minutes. Thankfully Seans seizure only lasted 5 minutes and Sean came back to us before the ambulance arrived, however the left side of his face was droopy and his speech was slurred, he couldn’t walk properly either and was dragging his left foot.

We arrived at the hospital and had to wait just like all the other patients. At this stage I was starting to feel angry. While we were waiting his face started twitching and he kept saying he couldn’t hear properly and his hands were in a tremor. He also started having a seizure, it got to the point I literally had to scream at them them to do something.

While he was in a fit for 15 minutes they moved him into another room where they tried to put a catheter in him at least 15 times. They couldn’t get it in because of how dehydrated he was which was something I had brought to the attention of doctors over the last so many visits. They were holding him down, 2 people per limb, while he was screaming and kicking in pain. I literally had to scream at them to stop and 2 of the nurses were backing me up to stop the paediatrician from continuing.

It was all a bit of a blur and we were transferred to the main children’s hospital where we started to get a bit better treatment. On arrival he started twitching again, I was starting to be able to predict that a seizure was coming and I was right, this time it went on for 40 minutes straight and once again he was gone, like he had left his body, his eyes just staring off without blinking the entire time. For another 45 minutes after he was basically unconscious. I was just praying and begging, I though that my son was dying, I thought that was it.

They were about to put him on a ventilator and they managed to get a catheter in while he was mid seizure, they said Sean could hear me, I then yelled at Sean to come back as a last resort and he came back. he opened his eyes and looked at me.

Over the next 30 hours he had a lumber puncture, MRI and CT, bloods and infectious control team had come down to investigate. All the tests that had been done came back clear. They didn’t find one single negative marker. I was telling them that it was the *** and they weren’t outright denying it but they couldn’t give me a straight answer as of yet because they were still investigating.

16 days later I’m still in hospital with Sean by his side every single night, what we have experienced up to now has been nothing short a nightmare. All the while my other son who I have in full time care, is due for an operation next week so I will now potentially have 2 sons in hospital at the same time.

Since being here Sean has forgotten how to eat, he has forgotten who I am at times and thinks I’m trying to attack him, he thinks he is dead sometimes. I’ve seen him deteriorate so badly that his fine motor skills and speech has all disappeared - it’s like he’s a 2 year old again. His behaviour is not like my son, it’s like he has 5 different personalities. He’s still vomiting, getting headaches and red rashes.

He hasn’t been officially diagnosed but they are clinically treating him as someone with limpic encephalitis [She must mean “Limbic encephalitis” which is a type of autoimmune encephalitis - typical of PANS/PANDAS that is an autoimmune induced basal ganglia encephalitis] because of how he presents but he doesn’t have the tests to back it up. Everyone is still left scratching their heads.

He is slowly improving with a long list of meds but with every step forward there’s always a step back and even though he’s being looked after here in the hospital, I know this is going to come to an end and there’s a lot of after care for a very long time to come.