Carol Messenger
Carol Messenger lives with spinal-cord damage (transverse myelitis) that followed vaccination. A firefighter, she is one of the few whose injury the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) recognized.
Key points
- Carol Messenger, 58, a 22-year Vancouver Fire Rescue veteran and captain who was very physically fit, testifies about her recognized vaccine injury.
- She says she received a Pfizer first dose in April 2021 and a mandated Moderna second dose on June 24, 2021, as she was retiring.
- She says that on July 18, 2021, she suddenly lost feeling from the waist down, lost bodily control, and collapsed, initially fearing a stroke.
- She says doctors found a five-centimetre spinal lesion between T10 and T11 and diagnosed transverse myelitis, treating her with massive steroids.
- She describes lasting paralysis in her lower body, a catheter for a month and a half, dysfunctional bladder, severe nightly leg spasms, thermal dysregulation, and swollen feet.
- She speaks about lost sexual sensation and function as part of her injury, and the emotional trauma of feeling broken.
- She says the Vaccine Injury Support Program lost her file and once declared her dead, and that she received only a small award covering none of her expenses, estimating about 90% recovery.
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Carol Messenger
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Carol Messenger
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Carol Messenger
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