Kia ora! This is my friends story. Hope the link works!
Nick Kilmartin-smith
So many of you will know that on the 17th Feb 2022 I was admitted to hospital, I woke up with crazy chest pains and could barely breathe, when I first arrived at the hospital the doctors thought I was having a heart attack. I was then put in a private room to have my bloods tested and a further diagnosis, they had found signs of myocarditis. They then decided to have me taken in an ambulance to Rotorua as I was not in a okay state. Once in Rotorua more tests etc were done and the pain started to ease. Later that night at about 8pm the pain had come back but about 10x worse, my ecg levels were through the roof and they expected me to have a heart attack/stroke, I was being injected with morphine every 5-10 minutes for 2 hours as it was that painful. They then decided they would fly me in a helicopter to Hamilton hospital as it had the equipment I needed. Once there I had settled again but my ecg levels were still through the roof, once we entered the hospital one of the crew members from the helicopter explained my ecgs to a nurse and she looked at me in shock as I was just sitting there comfortably. A few days go by and the docs had confirmed I had myocarditis and pericarditis. Which me being a 22 year old male and usually fit and healthy until now was quite a shock. I explained to them earlier that week I had been very sick, migraine, aches, pains, sweats, diarrhoea, vomiting you name it. I even called the doc in Taupo to ask if I should get tested and they said you don’t need to as it just sounds like a flu even though I had 13/20 symptoms listed on their page.
Anyway on the last day I had a MRI and confirmed I had myo and pericarditis, the doctors came to a conclusion that it was due to a viral flu, which I was not happy about as I’m 100% sure it’s from the vaccine, when I talked to the doctors and questioned it on them they mumbled their words and kept finding loop holes back to their answer. When I was there I was never asked about certain symptoms between then and my second dose of the vaccine, after being released I realised I had symptoms since 3 weeks after but never thought anything of them, on December 1st I had a seizure which I have never experienced before, and then a month after that I had bad pains at the bottom of my ribs like my lungs were bruised or something, every time I ate it was sore. Then exactly a month after this happened.
I just had to post something about this as many people have gone through this and it is the shittest experience I have ever had, not just being in hospital but after being released also, I have been put 6 months off work and anything else with strenuous activities, so that includes the gym and even a light jog.
I couldn’t claim acc but I have put a claim in which can take up to 9 months, when I am working I comfortably have a good income to pay bills etc, so I had to go to winz to seek help as I had no other choice, after everything including the health benefit I was approved for $239.17 a week…
My rent alone is $300 but luckily enough I have a great family who will let me move back in, but what gets my is why should I have to do this? Why can the government cough up money easily enough for people who will comfortably sit at home and not try find a job to get their income but then people like me who have been forced off work get paid of what’s leftover…
Even getting money from winz took a month to come through and they wouldn’t back track it to when I was forced off work just from the day I applied.
Everyday at the moment is different, some days are good and some days are bad, the pills I take lower my blood pressure so most of the time I have no energy to do anything, I still get bad chest pains every now and again from little things like grabbing something from the bottom of the pantry.
The worst part of it all is that it can be a life long condition, there is a chance that I and other people who have had the same thing may never recover from this, like why should we suffer?
I completely understand that there are so many other people in the world a lot worse off than I am and I’m very lucky to be where I am, but I wanted to say something as the talk wherever I go now is asking how I am etc, so here’s a full run down of it all
