Eva Caven
Day 2 · September 9, 2026 · 0:15:40
Key points Eva Caven, 68, a registered nurse of 42 years working with a geriatric population, testifies about an eye injury she attributes to vaccination. She says she received a Pfizer injection on March 26, 2021, and had a routine eye checkup on March 31 showing normal 20/20 vision. She says that on April 4 her eye became red, painful, and blurry, filling with blood, and her eye doctor observed a strange "snow globe" presentation he had never seen. She says she was treated with prednisone drops and given a note advising against a second shot so she could keep working. She describes years of a repeating cycle of inflammation and rising eye pressure, plus a vitrectomy, a retinal hole, and a scratched cornea from surgeries. She says she is now effectively blind in that eye, seeing only shadows, and manages severe daily pain with prednisone drops. She says she did not apply for compensation, that other doctors treat her condition with silence about its cause, and that she has lost friendships over it.
Speaker 4
0:02 So our next witness is Eva Cavan. 0:05 Did I say that right? 0:08 Kevin. 0:09 Okay. 0:09 Well, thank you. 0:10 No names are important. 0:12 Eva, will you take the Bible in your right hand? Speaker 4
0:16 Eva Cavan, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? 0:21 So help you God. 0:27 It's counterintuitive. 0:28 Red is on. 0:28 So thank you. 0:29 And you can just leave that on. 0:31 Um, 0:32 I just want to introduce you to the inquiry. 0:35 So you are 68 years of age. 0:39 Your husband, Peter, is here with you, supporting you, and two of you have a 35-year-old daughter. 0:45 You were a registered nurse for 42 years. Speaker 4
0:51 Hard to believe, right? 0:54 Working full-time, you were in good health, no underlying conditions. 0:59 We're going to be talking about eyes. 1:02 At age 35, you did have cataracts and have the standard lens replacement. 1:09 Tell us what happened. 1:12 You got an injection, a Pfizer injection on March 26, 2021. Speaker 2
1:18 Yeah, I got the injection. 1:23 I was working in the community as an RN, seeing people, a case manager seeing patients. 1:31 people in a geriatric program. 1:34 And our whole team, we had a team of five. 1:36 And we were encouraged to get it because we're working with the geriatric population. 1:41 And they were at risk. 1:44 So my turn was coming up. 1:47 And I went on March the 26th, like you said, got my injection. 1:53 And I didn't feel anything at the time. 1:57 And in between, I had seen my regular eye doctor, which I would go for appointments. 2:02 Like right after that, I saw him on March 31st. 2:06 Everything was okay. 2:08 I had 20-20 vision. Speaker 4
2:10 And I'm just going to slow you down. 2:11 That was just a regular checkup. Speaker 2
2:14 Yeah, like a checkup on my eye for whatever. 2:16 Yeah. Speaker 4
2:17 Yeah, so you weren't going there because you were having a problem. Speaker 4
2:20 Okay. 2:21 And so you go there and everything is... Speaker 2
2:22 It was okay. 2:24 And then... 2:26 four days later, um, April 4th, you remember all these dates. 2:32 I woke up in the morning and my, my eye was feeling a little bit strange, kind of hurting a little bit and looked a little red, but I went into work anyway, 12 hour shift. 2:44 So I went there and then as the day was progressing, it started to get redder and redder. 2:49 And, um, 2:52 It was really bothering me and I took some Tylenol. 2:55 It was like very kind of getting really more painful. 2:58 I went home and then it started to get worse. 3:01 And then my eyes started to get blurry. 3:03 And then my eye kind of just filled up with blood and it was looking very, very bad. 3:10 My husband could confirm that it was very scary. 3:15 So we got in to see the doctor that I had seen. 3:20 And he said, what are you doing here? 3:22 He just couldn't believe my eye was looking like that and looked in my eye. 3:29 And he saw a very strange presentation in my eye, these big snow globes that, you know, a doctor with probably over 30 years experience or so, he said, what is that? 3:43 You know, he didn't even know what that was. 3:44 And you think if you see a lot of eyes, you would see certain things. 3:49 So it was very strange. 3:50 But anyway, he treated me right away with the pregnazone drops, lots of drops, you know, every two hours, try to tame it, the inflammation. 3:59 It was burning. 4:01 It was red. 4:03 But it did calm it down. 4:05 So we were doing that. 4:08 And that was 2021. Speaker 4
4:11 Can I just slow you down? 4:14 Are you able to see through that eye at this time? Speaker 2
4:17 There's more to the story. 4:19 At the time after he treated me with the prednisone over the months, I could see with my eye. 4:27 It started to get better. 4:32 But then I think with the shot, oh, yeah, let me just back up. 4:38 Also, he wrote a letter for me to continue working saying that I should not get the second shot. 4:48 So I was able to work after that. 4:50 So I went back to work. 4:52 And it was like a continuous cycle of the inflammation getting better. 4:56 And then my eye pressure increasing. 5:00 And then having to go down on the inflammation drops, which is the prednisone. 5:05 So it was like a continuous cycle. 5:07 And I did work up until March 2022. 5:14 I just, it was too much after a while because, you know, you have to read reports and make reports to send to doctors and it was getting very hard. 5:23 So I retired early at the age of 64. 5:27 And that whole year, you know, was the same thing, the cycle of inflammation, burning, and then it would get better. 5:35 Then you would decrease the drops and then it would get worse again. Speaker 1
5:40 And then I ended up getting an infection in that eye being like, Speaker 2
5:45 I think immune compromised. 5:48 So then they had to do a vitrectomy in 2022, which is cleaning out the vitreous in your eye and a lot of antibiotics. 5:58 And then what happened was I got a retina hole in my eye because of all the operations in my eye. 6:08 And so I had to get treated in 2023 for the operations. 6:12 And 6:14 the hole closed, I had to have my head down for five days so that it would close. 6:21 So after that in 2023, it was still the on and off, the prednisone drops and getting better. 6:32 And then my cornea was actually scratched, I believe from all the surgeries. 6:38 So now I don't see at all. 6:39 I only see shadows 6:43 in front of my eye, like a hand going by. 6:46 So I am blind in that eye at 2,400. 6:51 And so that's what's happened. Speaker 4
6:55 So now this inflammation, it's still being managed today. 6:58 By prednisone, yeah. 7:00 So five years later. 7:01 And what happens if you're not managing it? Speaker 2
7:04 Yeah. 7:05 it'll get very red again and angry looking and burning and feels like somebody's poking me in the eye and my eye starts to water. 7:14 And so, you know, I end up using more drops and I continue to go to the doctors when it gets really bad. 7:20 And then they just kind of augment my medication and the pressure in my eye goes up because pregnant zone is known for that. 7:27 It'll just make your pressure go up and you don't want that to happen. 7:32 So, um, um, so, 7:36 what now it's like, I just keep, um, taking the drops and, um, hoping to look for, I try to, I try to keep positive. 7:45 I do yoga. 7:46 I go for walks in nature and I'm hoping that somehow I just find that the, that there's not really a, an answer for me right now. Speaker 4
7:59 Yeah. 7:59 And where I was going, it's just when we had had an interview, um, 8:03 Earlier, I think you described it as, like, if you're not managing well, it's literally like a red-hot poker in your eye. 8:09 Like, you're talking about severe pain. Speaker 2
8:11 Severe pain, yeah, when it's bad, and then I have to increase the prednisone drops. Speaker 4
8:16 Right, and you're in pain every day with this eye, am I right? Speaker 2
8:20 Yeah, right now I'm not because I really, I know it's coming here, so I made sure I had extra drops. 8:26 It does really help the prednisone, but... 8:30 it's the eye pressure that will go up, right? 8:32 So it's like a cat and mouse game. 8:34 Yeah. Speaker 4
8:38 Right. 8:38 So you've lost vision in one eye effectively, and you have to manage it to avoid chronic pain. Speaker 2
8:45 That's right. Speaker 4
8:46 Yeah. 8:48 Okay. 8:51 So my understanding is you can't drive at night anymore. 8:55 You have a hard time reading. Speaker 2
8:57 Yeah, I get tired reading books. Speaker 4
9:00 You can't do things like playing tennis and you couldn't, you've retired early over this. Speaker 2
9:06 Yeah, I did because it just didn't, I didn't have the same energy level, I would say, because, you know, you have to look at a lot of reports and do a lot of, you know, computer work and stuff and your eyes get tired if you just have the one eye. Speaker 4
9:25 What's been the hardest part of this? Speaker 2
9:28 Well, 9:30 the hardest part has been, you know, uh, for me, like waking up every morning, sometimes I have dreams, I wake up and it's gone and my eye is normal again, but, um, that, and also, um, you know, family and friends, I've, um, my family has been very, very supportive, but, you know, sometimes maybe they don't really understand it because they've all had shots and no one has had any injuries. 9:58 And that's, 10:00 That's my worry because I don't know the long-term effects of all these shots that people have gotten. 10:07 And I'm very happy that everybody's okay right now. 10:11 In my social circle, I hear a lot of people that had cancer, friends, people that had cancer, people that their father died right after the shot. 10:22 And I'm sure a lot of people hear of people that have had problems like that too. Speaker 4
10:29 inflammation have you lost some some friends over this yeah friendships yeah because they're really into the um the shots and um they and they're you know they were understanding of my my injury but um i don't know but the cause of the injury is unacceptable for them right like you've lost friendship you you basically you've lost an eye and 10:57 It's uncomfortable. 10:58 If you don't manage it, it's uncontrollable pain. Speaker 2
11:01 That's right. Speaker 4
11:02 So you're injured. 11:04 And if it was anything but vaccine injury, you'd still have friendships with them. Speaker 2
11:09 That's right, I guess. Speaker 4
11:11 Well, I'm asking you. Speaker 2
11:12 Yeah, I know. 11:14 I probably would because it caused, you know, two different thoughts of what people think about the whole thing. 11:25 vaccination idea about COVID-19 and everybody was scared. 11:29 I understand that in the beginning. 11:32 And so they're just, and they, and they just want to get on with life, you know, and when you tell someone, and even if you meet someone new, you say, yeah, I was, I'll say that I was injured from the vaccine. 11:43 And then they would just say, oh yeah, they just, hmm. Speaker 1
11:47 And they were just like, they don't understand it. 11:52 Yeah. Speaker 3
11:58 Do the doctors recognize you as having as this being a vaccine injury? 12:04 And did you have you applied to the government for the compensation at all? Speaker 2
12:10 No, I didn't because I heard that it wouldn't be worth it because a lot of people were doing it. 12:16 And the doctor, the good doctor that I had wrote the note and he said she should not get the next shot. 12:22 So he was very good. 12:26 When you go to other appointments, let's say if I go to optometrist and just get checked, no one really mentions the fact that it was from an injury. 12:35 It's always like kind of hush-hush or not hush-hush, just like a deafening silence. 12:39 Like there's no, they just treat it like a severe uveitis, like a bad inflammation of the eye. 12:46 No one talks about it. 12:49 And after a while, you don't feel like talking about it with them. Speaker 3
12:52 Yeah, I think the fact that you had 12:54 been tested, their eyes and their 20-20 vision just days before. 13:00 Yeah, that was fine. 13:01 You know, we're having this discussion now, it's been years, and it's been very intense for some time, but hopefully now that it's a bit more relaxed society and be able to examine this and the repercussions of these vaccines, maybe with a bit more open mind in this 13:21 and hopefully be able to make some changes in the future. Speaker 2
13:24 I hope so. 13:25 I'm very thankful to be here and all the people that applied to be here. 13:29 I'm thankful to be talking about it too. 13:31 And to Mr. Buckley and MP Ellison, thank you very much for this. 13:38 I hope that we can go forward with this and make people be acknowledged that this has happened. Speaker 6
13:46 Mr. Austin. 13:48 You said that you were an RN. 13:51 How did your former colleagues, how do they treat you today? Speaker 2
13:54 Yeah, they would have. Speaker 6
13:56 Do you have communication with them? 13:58 Has it been good? Speaker 2
14:00 I kind of lost communication with them because, like, now it's been four years. 14:04 So I'm developing new friends in my community. 14:09 And I'm just happy. 14:12 I don't know. 14:14 At the time when I was the person that only had the one shot and they would kind of look at me like, 14:19 I should get the second one. 14:20 You know, we're in this pandemic kind of thing, right? 14:22 But I had the note and I was lucky that way. Speaker 6
14:28 It's unfortunate that society has seemed to have changed, that people seem to think if it doesn't affect them, it's not happening around them. 14:38 And myself, I'd like to see society get back to looking out for your neighbor, looking out for your friends. Speaker 6
14:46 And it seems... 14:47 if we don't agree with somebody, well, we can't be their friend or they can't be our friend. Speaker 2
14:51 So we're all, we're all humans in this, this world and trying to get by. Speaker 6
14:58 Thanks for being here and telling me. 14:59 Yeah. Speaker 5
15:03 Well, thank you very much. 15:04 We really, we really appreciate you taking the time to explain what happened and talk about your injury. 15:10 As I said, 15:11 We're really just trying to promote dialogue and give people permission to speak publicly about these things. 15:17 Because as Mike said, you know what, it's okay to disagree with your neighbors. 15:22 That doesn't mean you don't have to talk to them anymore. 15:26 So we want to get back to where we could still agree to disagree. Speaker 1
15:29 That's right. Speaker 5
15:31 Thank you so much.