My mom had no family in the United States. She decided to go home and be closer to her family, and we returned to the Seychelles. After high school, I went to nursing school in the United States. Once I graduated, I started working as a labor and delivery nurse. I loved helping women at one of the most beautiful times of their lives. Within a year, I pretty much was a charge nurse for the Department of Women, Infants, and Children.
At first, I thought I was having an anaphylactic reaction. The paramedics took my vitals, which were extremely unstable. My blood pressure was so high I could have stroked out. I was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
That was the first of five 911 calls and five hospitalizations. Those first weeks I was at the doctor’s office every day if I wasn’t in the hospital. I was fortunate because I was valued in the medical community where I worked. They were eager to take care of me. This was also early on when only medical staff could get the vaccine, so they did all sorts of tests to figure out what was going on. Three or four different cardiologists plus other doctors worked on me.
I was still pro-vaccine. I looked at it as similar to giving penicillin to me, because I’m allergic to penicillin. So I was encouraging people to get it to protect each other.
Then I was invited, along with others, to speak to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control & Prevention] and the FDA [U.S. Food & Drug Administration]. I was happy we could present our evidence to them.
They listened, gave us their email, and told us we would have a follow-up meeting. We never heard back from them. I emailed multiple times but never heard from them.
I thought, “If the CDC and the FDA won’t listen, the NIH [National Institutes for Health] will, because they’re doctors. We’re in this together.”
I sent Dr. Nath, the head of neurology at the NIH, my hospital credentials and asked for his help. He was wonderful. I emailed him cases of vaccine injuries, and he would reply right away.
In one email, I asked him to look at data compiled by Steve Kirsch. His response was this generic email saying they didn’t treat vaccine injuries and that if I had further questions to look at the CDC website. That was the gist of it.
At that point, I realized my perception of these people putting health and safety first hadn’t been true. Greed, money, and power came first.
So I joined the VSRF team, founded by Steve Kirsch. It lit a fire in me. We were a team. None of us had a background in event planning and media, but we were passionate about caring for people.
If I’m never allowed to work in another hospital again for speaking out, for helping the helpless, that’s okay. I went into this to do my duty and to protect patients first. I want help and compensation for all the vaccine injured. That’s my goal.