By Martin, County Meath, Republic of Ireland
My daughter, Abbey, was a healthy happy 13 year old when she started secondary school. On the 22nd September 2014 she received her Gardasil vaccine along with the Tdap vaccine in school. She had an adverse reaction straight away. For over an hour, she was left lying on a mat on the floor while the rest of the girls were being vaccinated.
During this time she had seizure-like jerking, rolling eyes, blurred vision, headache, nausea etc. Eventually after an hour and twenty minutes we were called to the school to pick her up. No ambulance was called. The school administrators were not informed this episode had happened until the next day.
When I arrived at the school and asked why an ambulance wasn’t called,I was told I was OVERREACTING and this would wear off.
The next day, her mother and I thought Abbey was suffering withdrawals. Little did we know our nightmare was only getting started.
Two days after the vaccine Abbey returned to school but took another seizure and was taken by ambulance to Drogheda hospital A&E and admitted for six days.
After loads of blood tests, an MRI, and a lot of scratching of heads she was sent home with no diagnosis and no medication. We were told we would learn to adjust our lives and live with the situation.
Six months later, we are still waiting to see a neurologist.
At the moment, Abbey is not attending school because of her illness. Every day is a struggle thanks to Gardasil. Most days she simply wishes all this would be fixed and she can get back to school.
There has been no help offered from either the school or the health service!!
The vision problems, chest pains and stroke like symptoms continue!! The doctors keep suggesting BEHAVIOURAL problems and panic attacks but we have known our child for 13 years. She has never had any type of behavioural problems as the doctors are trying to suggest.
We have shortened this story a good bit so as not to bore the readers but our nightmare is now over 6 months long…….we can only speculate as to how much longer we must endure.
This article in it’s entirety, is complements of http://sanevax.org
Martin, Abbey and mom,
I am speechless and so sorry you have endured this. What kind of people would treat anyone like this, let alone a child? It’s time for our school, government and health officials to wake-up. No more.
Our youth are the best asset this world has to offer.
The last thing Abbey needs is to have someone tell her this is all in her head. Treat the source, right.
You all are really strong and please know there are many, many wonderful people cheering you on across the world.
Fortunately, you know of Sanevax.org. They have helped many youth and their families to locate doctors with expertise in this area. I also have practitioners within my Featured Doctors section as well. I hope you find a healing source soon and know that you are never alone in this.
Below is a clip that I hope lifts your spirits. Pray always.
God bless, and remember even with all the chaos, and this can be especially hard to do, remember this phrase:
A light heart lives long.
Your friend, jen
