Vaccine Injury Testimonial
Vaccine Injury of Michael Gruber
What was your life like before you received the COVID-19 vaccine?
I had a normal life, other than well-controlled type-2 diabetes. I was athletic and had no physical limitations.
Describe the symptoms and the timeline of the reaction.
On 8/18/2021 I received a call from a friend/supervisor very high up in my company telling me that he wanted me to get the vaccine. I told him that I already had a very bad reaction to Covid, four months earlier, where I had a 102 fever for 31 days straight and almost had to go to the hospital, as I was bedridden and coughing up what looked like gelatinous Coca Cola. He told me that he was working on getting me a pension, possibly a seat on a board in the future, and everything that he could to get me to take the vaccine. When I pushed back, reminding him about how sick Covid made me, he switched gears and told me that he was "very bullish" on me getting the vaccine. After my phone call with him, the company published its vaccine policy via an email.
After getting the J&J shot, recommended to me by my GP at the time, as it was the least effective and therefore might hurt me less than the other vaccines, I had an immediate reaction that has lasted since that day of 8/24/21.
For the first two years I was bed-ridden/stuck to a couch. I would sleep less than six hours a night with my 02 sats dropping into the 80s when I slept. I would have up two seven bowel movements a day (painful gas and diarrhea). I now have only four or five a day, now. I carry an empty protein shake bottle to spit chronic, chunky, post-nasal drip into wherever I go, all day. I can fill up a bottle in a day with phlegm. My immune system is fried. A year ago, I went on short-term disability (which is now long-term) as I was to sick to continue working at the pace I was (Sales Director at a medical device company). I see numerous doctors and am on numerous prescriptions and supplements to try and treat this.
I was just fired by my company last month, as I have no return-to-work date in sight, since I'm still sick. That doctor who recommended the J&J vaccine? He admitted that he never reported what happened to me to VAERS. I believe that he was under orders from the heath system he works for. Long-term disability is now trying to kick me off, as they say I'm okay and ready to go back to work, even though I'm still very sick, and can't leave the house without taking anti-diarrheals. My previous employer took no responsibility in their part of this. They pressured me to get the shot, and once they broke their toy, they didn't want to play with it anymore.
I've lost my health, my job ( I was there 16 years), and everyone is turning their back and saying "nothing to see here."
Describe the solutions that helped your symptoms
What seems to be working to some degree for me:
Dupixent, Ketotifen, Low-dose Naltrexone, Azelastine. I'm on a bunch of other supplements, but I'm not sure of their efficacy.
What would you like others to know?
This is not right that we be left behind like this. I take responsibility that although I was coerced, I took the shot, but others involved in what happened both before and after need to be held accountable. Lives should not be destroyed without consequences.
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Details
- Johnson-Johnson Vaccine:24 August 2021
Injury Date:
24 August 2021Age at Injury:
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