A beforehand “fit and active” mum of two has been left wheelchair-bound and “progressively losing function” in her limbs after a suspected response to the Pfizer vaccine.
Melene Guevremont, 37, was beforehand into browsing, snowboarding, paddle boarding and mountaineering however her well being started to deteriorate after receiving her third Covid vaccine dose in March 2022, based on her fiance.
Richard Ellison has launched a GoFundMe for Ms Guevremont, who “desperately needs medical treatments” after medical doctors had been left “at a loss on how to help her as these vaccines are too new”.
Ms Guevremont is experiencing greater than 30 signs mimicking these of motor neurone illness (MND), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) however regardless of already spending “many thousands of dollars on doctors/specialists and they have been unable to help so far”, based on Mr Ellison.
“We desperately need to try therapies in order to repair and stop the deterioration of her body,” he wrote.
“We plan to fly her over to the United States (from Australia) to receive promising treatments that consist of specialised nutritional IVs with peptides (which are illegal in Australia), stem cells injections and blood filtration treatments. These treatments have been proven to help many vaccine injured people, so we’re hoping this can help Mel.”
He added that if she was too unwell to fly to the US, “we will try similar treatments in Australia and possibly other countries if something more suitable is found”.
“Mel’s condition is evolving constantly,” he mentioned.
“These treatments cost many tens of thousands of dollars and will probably need to be repeated multiple times if they work. We are desperate for her to regain her health as currently, we fear the worst.”
Ms Guevremont instructed The Daily Mail, “It’s ruined my life completely and utterly. I am skin and bones. I don’t recognise myself. It’s not my body and I wake up with a new symptom every day. It’s a grieving process.”
The couple, who moved to Australia from Canada seven years in the past, had been pressured to promote their Manly unit as she struggles with stairs, and have spent greater than $25,000 seeing specialists together with neurologists and rheumatologists to no avail.
Documents supplied to The Daily Mail present hospitals and neurologists have recognized Ms Guevremont with “suspected vaccine injury”.
According to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) most up-to-date security replace, there have been a complete of 138,932 antagonistic occasion stories from practically 67.8 million Covid vaccine doses, a price of 0.2 per cent.
But because the TGA doesn’t recognise neurological accidents akin to GBS as being related to the Pfizer vaccine, Ms Guevremont is ineligible for compensation by way of the federal authorities’s Covid Vaccine Claims Scheme.
As of May 7, the scheme had paid 147 claims totalling greater than $7.7 million, out of a complete of 3552 functions acquired. There had been 2149 claims nonetheless in progress, 447 had been withdrawn and 809 deemed not payable.
“The compensation scheme is a joke,” Ms Guevremont mentioned.
The GoFundMe has raised greater than $15,000 as of Tuesday.
The TGA has been contacted for remark.
It comes after a landmark Covid vaccine harm class motion lawsuit was launched in April, with round 500 folks initially expressing curiosity.
The class motion, organised and crowd-funded by Queensland GP Dr Melissa McCann, takes purpose on the Commonwealth authorities and the TGA — together with a lot of senior public servants — alleging negligence, breach of statutory obligation and misfeasance in public workplace.
The go well with alleges that the respondents authorised the vaccines “with no proper or reasonable evidentiary or logical basis to reasonably determine the vaccines to be safe, effective and possessing a positive risk-benefit profile”.
“The action will argue that the Therapeutic Goods Administration did not fulfil their duty to properly regulate the Covid-19 vaccines, resulting in considerable harm and damage to Australians,” Natalie Strijland from NR Barbi Solicitor mentioned in a press release in April.
Ms Strijland mentioned the motion “arises upon the basis that the government did not truly establish that the vaccines were indeed safe or effective for use by the Australian public, and the claim now proceeds upon the basis that the government in fact acted negligently in approving the vaccines and also by failing to withdraw them after approval based upon the known evidence”.
“Australians who have experienced a serious adverse event following Covid-19 vaccination are invited to step forward and register for this class action,” she mentioned.
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Originally printed as ‘Fit and active’ mum-of-two left wheelchair-bound after suspected Covid vaccine harm
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au