Saturday, December 1, 2007
2 SISTERS DISABLED
Please forgive us for writing this letter as we feel that our father has always provided for us well; while we were in college obtaining our many degrees. My sister and I unfortunately became disabled at the young age of 25. Catherine with Gillian Barrett Syndrome, Myelopathy, and Fibromyalgia due to vaccines while studying at Bellevue Hospital School of Radiology.Audrey was put on medication for Endometriosis and suffered a stroke 4 days later. She lost Consciousness and fell herniating her entire vertebrae. This caused Fibromyalgia and Myofacial disorder along with various Infarctuses in several regions of her brain.To date, we have both had over 30 Ambulatory Surgeries, 1000 injections, 4 real surgeries and now Audrey may need surgery to implant a lower lumbar Neuropathic Pacemaker. She is completely bed-bound, cannot walk to shower, use the bathroom, or stand in an erect position 90 percent of the time.We have to sit and wait on food lines since it is difficult to stand and it is more than humiliating. They do not considered disabled people to be entitled to toilet paper, clothes, soap, or any paper goods. No one asks for a life like this, yet this is what god has given us. It is a battle everyday just to make it through a day.We are embarrassed to ask for help but have no other recourses having exhausted all of our own savings going through the process of becoming disabled. We ask and appreciate your kindness and generosity. Please help our family in any way you can and may god protect you and your families from this ever happening to you because suing for medical malpractice is a myth. Thank you,Catherine and Audrey I would also like to start a hotline telephone number where those in Canada who are not computer literate can call to request information about their diagnoses, medications, reading and understanding their prescriptions. Too many mistakes are made; medicine is a practice and many blindly trust their physicians. The Canadian medical system has deteriorated. There is a one year wait for an MRI. They label any child with chronic coughing as asthmatic. My sister(Audrey) recently came here because she can no longer take care of herself and slipped in urine in the elevator requiring surgery. She could not get treated here for chronic pain nor this injury. She had to go back to the states while already disabled to Thank God, one of her old doctors who is a chief of several hospitals who took her in right away for MRI's and knee surgery. I would like to open a Medical Information Center. Anyone can call in and we research on the internet and provide them with the information. They will be charged based on the amount of time and the number of pages necessary.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
My Name is CATHERINE . I was a young- bull trying to accomplish all the things I had been taught: School, Work and make a life for yourself. The world gives you back what you put into it. I worked all throughout and it took me six years to finish college and I worked in medical practices starting at four dollars an hour and also worked full- time as well.
I graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology with honors: Member of ALPHA BETA GAMMA CHAPTER VI, Dean’s list, Mentoring Program Etc. After that my passion was and will always be the Medical Field so at the young age of TWENTYFIVE, I decided to become a part of Bellevue Hospital School of Radiography, N.Y. N.Y., so that I could have a specialty and manage a department in the hospital. I allotted myself ten dollars a week for food and took a loan for the school and that’s where my story begins or ends, shall I say.
AT the young age of 25, I attended Bellevue School of Radiography and was maintaining an A, average and bets were placed that I would be the Valedictorian. It was extremely intensive, ten classes a semester and clinical all afternoon. I studied five hours a day.
Close to a year into the program, we were instructed to have vaccinations. They told me side -effects could be flu, fever, soar throat. We were told that we did not have to but if we did not we could not continue with the program. After working so hard I was scared not to complete the program as I knew my family was leaving the country and I had to make a life for myself. We were instructed to go to the clinical area and wait for our turn. I remember when it was my turn the nurse asked the doctor if it was okay to give me all the injections at one time- he paused and stated yes.
I was given MMR, Hepatitis, and Influenza that day and that is when my life took a drastic change. Many of us starting with the next day had flu-like symptoms, which started changing everyday. Many of us became disabled that day;” THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE”, I CALL US AS THE STORY OF HOW OUR LIFES WERE FOREVER CHANGED AND CONTINUE TO BE.
FACTS :
I STARTED HAVING BURNING IN MY LEGS TO THE POINT THAT I COULDN’T WEAR PANTS, SOCKS, BLANKETS; NOTHING COULD TOUCH MY LEGS. IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE WAS HOLDING HOT IRONS ON MY LEGS, THE PAIN WOULD NOT STOP.
I STARTED HAVING SENSATATIONS OF ANTS CRAWLING ALL OVER MY BODY, IN MY EARS, EYEBALLS, EVERYWHERE; IT WOULD NOT STOP.
MY SKIN WOULD BUBBLE; I CALL IT, AS IF A BABY WAS KICKING AND YOU COULD FEEL IT AND ACTUALLY SEE IT. MANY OTHER STUDENTS STARTED REPORTING SIMILAR SYMPTOMS ALL NEUROLOGICAL, YET DIFFERENT, MICHELE KUHNLE-BLADDER PARALYSIS-HAD TO CATHETERIZE HERSELF FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER MISSING 4 MONTHS OF SCHOOL. OTHERS WERE FAINTING, SUFFERING WITH TINGLING SENSATATIONS, ANT LIKE SENSATATIONS, HEARING LOSS ETC. We all started reporting these symptoms to the school and they were sending us to the clinic part for us to be evaluated. Everyone was at a loss at that time since vaccines weren’t known to cause Autism, Neurological disorders, Gillian Bar Syndrome.
I went to HIP as that was the insurance I had. Orthopedics started with:
X-rays
Nuclear Scans- I was radioactive for 2 days and had to stay away from children
Cat Scans
Emg’s
Electroencephalograms
Myelogram- I went into anaphylactic shock and almost died at LaGuardia hospital.
Skin grafts
Venuous flow tests, etc
No one knew what was wrong; I was put on Massive doses of painkillers:
180 pills of Soma a month
Vicodin ES 750mg ,TID
Voltaren
Celebrex
Viox
Flexoril
Percocet
You name it, I was on it and the burning would not stop, not for a minute, I was losing my mind. I was given a walker, leg braces, arm braces and could barely ambulate; the other problem was I couldn’t wear clothes below the waist. They didn’t know what to do and kept sending me home with more medicine. My nickname there was “BIONIC WOMAN”.
Eventually, I wanted to die just to stop the pain and a neurologist named DR. S.found me in the staircase crying at HIP and decided to do an exam. He felt sure and called my family in to announce that I had Multiple Sclerosis and 95% chances of never walking again; All this when I was only 25 years old.
I woke up one morning to my family practically breaking down the door, and as I crawled to answer it they stated” I had called everyone crying I didn’t want to live anymore and was saying goodbye to them during the night”. I have no recollection of that event. They also discovered I had bruises all over my body from apparently falling out of bed repeatedly, which I do not recall. My family didn’t know how to help as they were emigrants and were not familiar with the medical system. I had exhausted the $40,000.00 on medical fees; I worked to save from the age of 13 on. I had to sell my Maxima, which, I purchased new and was paid for to travel to school and back, and shortly I was going to be homeless.
I had to crawl to brush my teeth, crawl to try and shower, lived without toilet paper for days, clean towels etc. My family lived in Canada and they were feeling guilty as if they did something wrong; genetically. They were either in denial or sobbing.
Eventually, I started feeling that I couldn’t crawl to leave the house to see my Neurologist because there was not enough air and I couldn’t breath. My father offered to carry me; he said he would protect me. My family knew I was deteriorating being left in a bed for two years with no physical therapy and tons of medications. We were following the doctors’ orders. Finally, my family called the doctors to tell them this and I was told I needed a Psychiatrist and therapy, on top, I started having PANIC ATTACKS, which at that time, I didn’t know what they were and thought my life was ending. My family took me to NYU Hospital for a second opinion.
I underwent more testing and the Chief Resident Neurologist-Dr. J. felt I had a POST-PERIPHERAL MYELOPATHY FROM THE VACCINES AND WROTE IT IN HIS CHART. MY MEDICATIONS WERE SWITCHED WHICH CAUSED HORRIBLE WITHDRAWLS. THE NEW COCKTAIL WAS:
· TEGRATOL-BLOOD TESTS EVERY MONTH FOR THIS MEDICATION
· ANTI-DEPRESSANTS FOR PAIN AND DEPRESSION-WHICH I HAD SEVERE SIDE- EFFECTS TO AT LEAST TEN OF THEM, WHICH I TRIED, PALPATATION, CYANOSIS, SYNCOPE, GAINING 40 POUNDS, ETC
· OXAZEPAM FOR ANXIETY
· INDERAL
I BECAME A CRAWLING JUNKEY. MY FIVE YEAR RELATIONSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT ENDED, HE COULD NOT HANDLE SEEING ME IN A WHEEL CHAIR, MANY MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY COULD NOT FACE ME, I LOST ALL MY FRIENDS AS THEIR LIVES WENT ON AND MINE WAS DETERIORATING.
WE STARTED LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS WHICH WERE COSTLY, I BEGAN A REGIME OF:
· CHIROPRACTIC-DR. F.- 5 times a week
· Accupuncture-2x a week, that was all my family could afford
· Brain scans and continuous scans of every part of my body.
· Referred to Orthopedic Surgeon-Dr. D.
· Started therapy with Judy for 5 years, which saved my life; Center for Psychotherapy and later B Center for Psychotherapy. Eventually my family went from being well-off to having to sell their furniture to pay for all of these treatments, let alone I had two other sisters that had to be cared for. They sold our house ALSO 111-04 76th Drive in Forest Hills, I cried for months, and years.
I had applied for disability and had been turned down two times which is there protocol. By the third time and appearing in front of the judge and representing myself, I was deemed disabled due to having Guillian Bar Syndrome, but not the usual motor loss; I had SENSORY PARASTHESIA AND DYSASTHESIA, WHICH WAS STILL NOT PART OF THE ICD-9 CLASSIFICATIONS OF CODES.
Dr. D(Orthopedic Surgeon) was treating me with multiple Trigger Point injections; I estimate to have had over five hundred and I had been on a cocktail of medications. Winters were hard because I was not able to wear pants, socks, use sheets or blankets etc. The Doctor, not knowing what else to do decided to try a cream called Zostrix HP, used for Diabetic burning or Shingle Patients, which reduced the burning and I could wear clothes again on my lower extremities, given time. I used to have to buy socks that cost Thirty dollars a pair due to their softness. This also made it easier to wear the braces since the fabric intensified the burning at that time. Finally, the orthopedic surgeon called me one night and said he couldn’t treat me anymore because all the treatments weren’t really helping, I had put on 40 pounds from all the injections and he could not do more than what he had done. A week later, he called to tell me he heard about a pain center and gave me the information. All of this went on for about 6 years before I found Dr. H, Double Diplomat, And Chronic Pain Anesthesiologist.
Life started getting better as I started treating with him. My medication cocktail became:
· Paxil 70 mg daily
· Vicodin ES 750 mg , TID
· Protonix- stomach was destroyed with all medications
· Oxazepam 15mg, TID
· Celebrex BID
· Zoxtrix HP daily, but could not shave legs to use this cream
My cocktail was now less and I began having Ambulatory Epidurals under anesthesia. In total over 8 more years I had:
· 14 ambulatory epidurals under anesthesia
· 2 Arthroscopic knee surgeries; Dr. B- Orthopedic Surgeon, Nassau County
· 300 Trigger point injections or more
It was after eight years of treatment with him, I was finally able to walk a block and stop to rest from the pain. Every few months, I was able to walk another block, and this continued until the year of 2000. Ten years later I finally could stand long enough to brush my teeth, partly through a shower, I could wear clothes. Thank god too, because we could not afford the Chiropractors and Acupuncture anymore and my father suffered a heart- attack and had a quintuple bypass surgery and he could not carry me or drive me anymore.
I NEEDED HELP AND STARTED GETTING INFORMED AS IT HAD BEEN TOO PAINFUL FOR ME IN THE PAST, AND EVEN WRITING THIS LETTER SETS ME INTO TEARS; I DO IT FOR MY LITTLE MIRACLE, MY FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN NEVER GIVE HER THE LIFE I COULD HAVE. I CONTACTED OUR CONGRESSMAN, A. WEINER, QUEENS, NY, WHO I AM GRATEFUL TO AS HE CONTACTED HILLARY CLINTON, SUPTEINTENDANT SERIO- DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; C. MURPHY, AND OTHERS WERE BEING FOUGHT BY ME REGARDING MY DISABILITY; ALL OF THE MIS-DIAGNOSES; NOW THAT INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE, THIMEROSAL WAS A HOT TOPIC.
MY DOCTORS WERE WILLING TO TESTIFY AND IT WAS REPORTED TO THE CDC AND THE VACCINE INJURY HOTLINE ONCE THESE WERE CREATED. THERE WERENT THE LAWS WHEN I WAS INJURED THAT THE DOCTORS HAD TO REPORT IT TO THE CDC, THERE WAS NO VAERS, WHICH I AM STILL NOT A PART OF. IT APPEARS THAT THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR A CHILD THAN AN ADULT. IT SHOULDN’T MATTER AT WHAT AGE THIS OCCURS, WHAT IS WORSE A CHILD WHO DOESN’T KNOW LIFE YET, OR SOMEONE’S LIFE THAT IS RIPPED APART?
LAWYERS THAN SAID THE DOCTORS WOULD BE FIRED IF THEY TESTIFIED AND THIS WAS COMMON PRACTICE with VAERS, AS THE GOVT WAS COVERING UP. MY DOCTORS WILL AND STILL WILL, IF NEED BE AFTER THE HORROR THEY SAW ME GO THROUGH. I HAVE SPOKEN TO THEM RECENTLY ABOUT THIS AND THEY ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TAKE THE RISK AS THEY FEEL A VIBRANT, BRAVE, YOUNG WOMAN WAS LED TO ALMOST DEATH, DISABILITY, AND POVERTY. YOU GET PENALIZED FOR GOING TO COLLEGE BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN’T CONTRIBUTE ENOUGH IN TAXES YOU CAN ONLY GET $400. A MONTH AND FOOD STAMPS, WHICH DO NOT COVER TOILET PAPER, SOAP, LAUNDRY DETERGENT, PAPER TOWELS, CLOTHING ETC.
I HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING THESE LETTERS FROM Congress AND NOTHING WAS EVER DONE ABOUT IT FOR ME OR BY VAERS, CDC ETC. THE LETTERS KEPT STATING I NEEDED PERMISSION ON A FEDERAL LEVEL TO BE ACCEPTED TO THE VACCINE ADVERSE EFFECT FUND. NO ONE WAS EVER ABLE TO BE REACHED, ALTHOUGH IT WAS REPORTED AND I WAS GIVEN A SPECIFIC NUMBER TO REFER TO. IT APPEARS THAT THE VACCINES HAVE BEEN ADDED AND ARE BACK-DATED TO THIS PERIOD now. I HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO WRITE THIS LETTER TO MERC PHARMACEUTICALS LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO NOTIFY THEM AND TO ASK FOR COMPENSATION TO AVOID LAUNCHING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM A WOMAN NAMED ANGELIQUE, WHO STATED SHE WAS THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO HILLARY CLINTON AND IF THIS DID NOT RESOLVE ANYTHING, HILLARY CLINTON WOULD BE HANDLING THIS AS A PERSONAL MATTER AND never did anything or answered my calls afterwards.
I AM STILL DISABLED TO DATE AND HAVE A FOUR YEAR OLD TO SUPPORT. I HAVE HAD FOURTEEN AMBULATORY SURGERIES, 3 SURGERIES, AND HAVE TAKEN THOUSANDS OF PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS FOR THIS WHEN MY LIFE SUDDENLY CHANGED AT THE EARLY AGE OF TWENTYFIVE, AFTER ONE YEAR OF ENTERING THIS SCHOOL AFTER COMPLETING MY B.S. DEGREE.
IN ADDITION, IN 2000, I HAD MY GALL BLADDER REMOVED AT NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, FOREST HILLS, NY BY DR. ALANDEWI; WHO STATES THAT I HAD BILIARY DYSKENESIA DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF MEDICATION I HAD BEEN ON FOR YEARS. HE FELT IT WAS VERY RARE FOR SOMEONE MY AGE TO HAVE THIS.
I HAVE SUFFERED MANY YEARS NOW AND CONTINUE TO DO SO.I AM BEGGING FOR A CHANCE TO AFFORD MY YOUNG CHILD A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE AS I LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME, A SMALL ONE FROM SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY. I AM A SINGLE MOTHER, AND HAD TO MOVE TO MONTREAL, CANADA, TO BE NEAR MY FAMILY AS I NEED THEIR HELP IN RAISING HER DUE TO MY LIMITED ABILITIES. SHE IS MY REASON FOR LIVING AND TO ME A MIRACLE FOR ALL THE HELL I HAVE BEEN THROUGH. I DO NOT WANT HER TO BE RAISED IN POVERTY, SHE ALREADY SEES ME SUFFER, TAKE MEDICATION, CONSTANT DOCTORS’ APPOINTMENTS, BRACES, ETC. MY LIFE WAS STOLEN FROM ME I WANT AND BEG FOR THE CHANCE TO GIVE HER A GOOD LIFE. I AM NOT JUST A NUMBER. MY NAME IS CATHERINE HAMON, BS, CRA, AAS, MA, AS I CONTINUED MY STUDIES WHEN I AM ABLE TO AND CLEAR ENOUGH SINCE THE MEDICATION MAKES YOU FORGETFUL, LACK OF ENERGY, ETC.
MY CURRENT DIAGNOSES ARE:
GUILLIAN BAR SYNDROME
MYELOPATHY
FIBROMYALGIA WITH MYOFACIAL RADICULOPATHY
MY CURRENT MEDICATION REGIME:
PAXIL 70MG DAILY FOR BURNING AND ANTI-DEPRESSANT PROPERTIES
LYRICA 50MG, TID-NEUROMUSCULAR
ALERTEC-MODOFANIL – 100MG, BID-ENERGY;ANTI-NARCOLEPTIC AND EXPENSIVE
CLONAZEPAM, 50MG, BID
VICODIN 750MG, TID
I AM NOW BEING EVALUATED BY HOSPITAL-in Canada-CHRONIC PAIN CENTER BY:
DR. F-RHEUMOTOLOGIST AND DR. G; WHO ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MIX OF MEDICATIONS NY HAS ME ON AND THAT THE SIDE –EFFECTS MAY BE HORRIFIC AND I AM UNDERGOING EXAMS AGAIN.
I AM NOW FUNCTIONAL, WITH MEDICATIONS, BUT MY CONDITION VARIES WITH WEATHER ETC, AND SOME DAYS ARE MUCH HARDER THAN OTHERS. I WILL BE ON MEDICATION THE REST OF MY LIFE WHICH I FOUGHT VERY HARD NOT TO BE ON. I FINALLY CHOSE PERHAPS A SHORTER LIFE BUT A MORE FUNCTIONALONE.
WHOEVER READS THIS, PLEASE FIND THE COMPASSION IN YOUR HEART TO HELP. I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS AND WILL SUFFER IN PAIN PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY UNTIL I DIE. I AM NOW FORTYTWO YEARS OLD.I AM TEMPORARILY RESIDING IN CANADA FOR ONE YEAR AS I CANNOT TAKE CARE OF MYSELF AT TIMES AND MY OLD-AGED PARENTS HELP ME.
I BEG AND ASK THAT YOU FIND THE MERCY, COMPASSION AND KINDNESS IN YOUR HEART TO DO SOMETHING TO COMPENSATE ME COMPENSATE ME FOR WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH AND WILL CONTINUE TO UNTIL I DIE.
MY MAIN REASON IS TO GIVE MY DAUGHTER, BRIANNA, A CHANCE OF HAVING A GOOD LIFE, WITH SECURITY. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, SO SHE CAN GO TO SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, SO WE DON’T HAVE TO WAIT ON FOOD LINES ANYMORE OR TAKE FURNITURE FROM THE GARBAGE ANYMORE. I BEG, AND ASK AS A MOTHER, WHO WANTS TO SEE HER CHILD NOT SUFFER FOR THE HORRORS THAT HAPPENED TO ME. IT IS MY RIGHT, AND AN OBLIGATION FROM YOUR COMPANY TO DO SO AS YOU ARE A BIG PART OF THE CAUSE. I ASK FOR WHAT IS FAIR, I TRUST IN GOD, AND HE SEES ALL AND I KNOW THAT JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL.
I CANNOT AFFORD LIFE INSURANCE; APT INSURANCE ETC. PLEASE FIND IT IN YOUR HEART TO DO THE RIGHT THING. I COULD HAVE APPROACHED THIS WITH A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT; I HAVE NOT. I HAVE COME TO YOU TO SEEK RETRIBUTION FOR WHAT I HAVE SUFFERED THROUGH AND WISH ONLY THAT YOU MAY NEVER KNOW THE HORRORS OF PAIN THE BRAIN CAN CREATE.
YOU HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO BE IN A BETTER POSITION THAN MYSELF. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO ME BECAUSE OF GENETICS, OR ON ITS OWN. IT WAS INDUCED BY THE VACCINES THEREFORE; IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY SINCE YOU CREATED THESE. AGAIN, IT DESTROYED MANY LIVES; I AM ONE PERSON ASKING, PRIVATELY, WITHOUT INCLUDING THE OTHER CLASS MEMBERS.
I HAVE SPOKEN TO MANY LAWYERS WHO ADVISE ME DIFFERENTLY BUT I AM TRYING TO HAVE FAITH IN YOUR COMPANY AND IN DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR ME AS WELL AS FOR THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT FOUR YEAR OLD. DON’T CONDEMN HER TO A LIFE THAT WAS BESTOWED UPON ME. I WAS A LEADER AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IF I HAVE TO. MY VOICE WILL BE HEARD, BOOKS WILL BE WRITTEN.
I ASK FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF SUFFERING AND THE REST OF MY LIFE ON MEDICATION. I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG I WILL HAVE TO LIVE BUT I WANT TO KNOW MY DAUGHTER WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY. I HAVE ENOUGH DEGREES THAT I SHOULD AND COULD HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT YOUR VACCINES TOOK THAT AWAY. I ASK THAT YOU FAVOR MY REQUEST FOR MY FAMILY, MY PARENTS AND THEIR SUFFERING THROUGH THIS, AND MOST OF ALL FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE. I TRUST YOUR FAIRNESS, INTEGRITY, CARING FOR THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING.
THANK YOU, FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND UNDERSTANDING.
CATHERINE
chamon9536@hotmail.com
I graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology with honors: Member of ALPHA BETA GAMMA CHAPTER VI, Dean’s list, Mentoring Program Etc. After that my passion was and will always be the Medical Field so at the young age of TWENTYFIVE, I decided to become a part of Bellevue Hospital School of Radiography, N.Y. N.Y., so that I could have a specialty and manage a department in the hospital. I allotted myself ten dollars a week for food and took a loan for the school and that’s where my story begins or ends, shall I say.
AT the young age of 25, I attended Bellevue School of Radiography and was maintaining an A, average and bets were placed that I would be the Valedictorian. It was extremely intensive, ten classes a semester and clinical all afternoon. I studied five hours a day.
Close to a year into the program, we were instructed to have vaccinations. They told me side -effects could be flu, fever, soar throat. We were told that we did not have to but if we did not we could not continue with the program. After working so hard I was scared not to complete the program as I knew my family was leaving the country and I had to make a life for myself. We were instructed to go to the clinical area and wait for our turn. I remember when it was my turn the nurse asked the doctor if it was okay to give me all the injections at one time- he paused and stated yes.
I was given MMR, Hepatitis, and Influenza that day and that is when my life took a drastic change. Many of us starting with the next day had flu-like symptoms, which started changing everyday. Many of us became disabled that day;” THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE”, I CALL US AS THE STORY OF HOW OUR LIFES WERE FOREVER CHANGED AND CONTINUE TO BE.
FACTS :
I STARTED HAVING BURNING IN MY LEGS TO THE POINT THAT I COULDN’T WEAR PANTS, SOCKS, BLANKETS; NOTHING COULD TOUCH MY LEGS. IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE WAS HOLDING HOT IRONS ON MY LEGS, THE PAIN WOULD NOT STOP.
I STARTED HAVING SENSATATIONS OF ANTS CRAWLING ALL OVER MY BODY, IN MY EARS, EYEBALLS, EVERYWHERE; IT WOULD NOT STOP.
MY SKIN WOULD BUBBLE; I CALL IT, AS IF A BABY WAS KICKING AND YOU COULD FEEL IT AND ACTUALLY SEE IT. MANY OTHER STUDENTS STARTED REPORTING SIMILAR SYMPTOMS ALL NEUROLOGICAL, YET DIFFERENT, MICHELE KUHNLE-BLADDER PARALYSIS-HAD TO CATHETERIZE HERSELF FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER MISSING 4 MONTHS OF SCHOOL. OTHERS WERE FAINTING, SUFFERING WITH TINGLING SENSATATIONS, ANT LIKE SENSATATIONS, HEARING LOSS ETC. We all started reporting these symptoms to the school and they were sending us to the clinic part for us to be evaluated. Everyone was at a loss at that time since vaccines weren’t known to cause Autism, Neurological disorders, Gillian Bar Syndrome.
I went to HIP as that was the insurance I had. Orthopedics started with:
X-rays
Nuclear Scans- I was radioactive for 2 days and had to stay away from children
Cat Scans
Emg’s
Electroencephalograms
Myelogram- I went into anaphylactic shock and almost died at LaGuardia hospital.
Skin grafts
Venuous flow tests, etc
No one knew what was wrong; I was put on Massive doses of painkillers:
180 pills of Soma a month
Vicodin ES 750mg ,TID
Voltaren
Celebrex
Viox
Flexoril
Percocet
You name it, I was on it and the burning would not stop, not for a minute, I was losing my mind. I was given a walker, leg braces, arm braces and could barely ambulate; the other problem was I couldn’t wear clothes below the waist. They didn’t know what to do and kept sending me home with more medicine. My nickname there was “BIONIC WOMAN”.
Eventually, I wanted to die just to stop the pain and a neurologist named DR. S.found me in the staircase crying at HIP and decided to do an exam. He felt sure and called my family in to announce that I had Multiple Sclerosis and 95% chances of never walking again; All this when I was only 25 years old.
I woke up one morning to my family practically breaking down the door, and as I crawled to answer it they stated” I had called everyone crying I didn’t want to live anymore and was saying goodbye to them during the night”. I have no recollection of that event. They also discovered I had bruises all over my body from apparently falling out of bed repeatedly, which I do not recall. My family didn’t know how to help as they were emigrants and were not familiar with the medical system. I had exhausted the $40,000.00 on medical fees; I worked to save from the age of 13 on. I had to sell my Maxima, which, I purchased new and was paid for to travel to school and back, and shortly I was going to be homeless.
I had to crawl to brush my teeth, crawl to try and shower, lived without toilet paper for days, clean towels etc. My family lived in Canada and they were feeling guilty as if they did something wrong; genetically. They were either in denial or sobbing.
Eventually, I started feeling that I couldn’t crawl to leave the house to see my Neurologist because there was not enough air and I couldn’t breath. My father offered to carry me; he said he would protect me. My family knew I was deteriorating being left in a bed for two years with no physical therapy and tons of medications. We were following the doctors’ orders. Finally, my family called the doctors to tell them this and I was told I needed a Psychiatrist and therapy, on top, I started having PANIC ATTACKS, which at that time, I didn’t know what they were and thought my life was ending. My family took me to NYU Hospital for a second opinion.
I underwent more testing and the Chief Resident Neurologist-Dr. J. felt I had a POST-PERIPHERAL MYELOPATHY FROM THE VACCINES AND WROTE IT IN HIS CHART. MY MEDICATIONS WERE SWITCHED WHICH CAUSED HORRIBLE WITHDRAWLS. THE NEW COCKTAIL WAS:
· TEGRATOL-BLOOD TESTS EVERY MONTH FOR THIS MEDICATION
· ANTI-DEPRESSANTS FOR PAIN AND DEPRESSION-WHICH I HAD SEVERE SIDE- EFFECTS TO AT LEAST TEN OF THEM, WHICH I TRIED, PALPATATION, CYANOSIS, SYNCOPE, GAINING 40 POUNDS, ETC
· OXAZEPAM FOR ANXIETY
· INDERAL
I BECAME A CRAWLING JUNKEY. MY FIVE YEAR RELATIONSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT ENDED, HE COULD NOT HANDLE SEEING ME IN A WHEEL CHAIR, MANY MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY COULD NOT FACE ME, I LOST ALL MY FRIENDS AS THEIR LIVES WENT ON AND MINE WAS DETERIORATING.
WE STARTED LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS WHICH WERE COSTLY, I BEGAN A REGIME OF:
· CHIROPRACTIC-DR. F.- 5 times a week
· Accupuncture-2x a week, that was all my family could afford
· Brain scans and continuous scans of every part of my body.
· Referred to Orthopedic Surgeon-Dr. D.
· Started therapy with Judy for 5 years, which saved my life; Center for Psychotherapy and later B Center for Psychotherapy. Eventually my family went from being well-off to having to sell their furniture to pay for all of these treatments, let alone I had two other sisters that had to be cared for. They sold our house ALSO 111-04 76th Drive in Forest Hills, I cried for months, and years.
I had applied for disability and had been turned down two times which is there protocol. By the third time and appearing in front of the judge and representing myself, I was deemed disabled due to having Guillian Bar Syndrome, but not the usual motor loss; I had SENSORY PARASTHESIA AND DYSASTHESIA, WHICH WAS STILL NOT PART OF THE ICD-9 CLASSIFICATIONS OF CODES.
Dr. D(Orthopedic Surgeon) was treating me with multiple Trigger Point injections; I estimate to have had over five hundred and I had been on a cocktail of medications. Winters were hard because I was not able to wear pants, socks, use sheets or blankets etc. The Doctor, not knowing what else to do decided to try a cream called Zostrix HP, used for Diabetic burning or Shingle Patients, which reduced the burning and I could wear clothes again on my lower extremities, given time. I used to have to buy socks that cost Thirty dollars a pair due to their softness. This also made it easier to wear the braces since the fabric intensified the burning at that time. Finally, the orthopedic surgeon called me one night and said he couldn’t treat me anymore because all the treatments weren’t really helping, I had put on 40 pounds from all the injections and he could not do more than what he had done. A week later, he called to tell me he heard about a pain center and gave me the information. All of this went on for about 6 years before I found Dr. H, Double Diplomat, And Chronic Pain Anesthesiologist.
Life started getting better as I started treating with him. My medication cocktail became:
· Paxil 70 mg daily
· Vicodin ES 750 mg , TID
· Protonix- stomach was destroyed with all medications
· Oxazepam 15mg, TID
· Celebrex BID
· Zoxtrix HP daily, but could not shave legs to use this cream
My cocktail was now less and I began having Ambulatory Epidurals under anesthesia. In total over 8 more years I had:
· 14 ambulatory epidurals under anesthesia
· 2 Arthroscopic knee surgeries; Dr. B- Orthopedic Surgeon, Nassau County
· 300 Trigger point injections or more
It was after eight years of treatment with him, I was finally able to walk a block and stop to rest from the pain. Every few months, I was able to walk another block, and this continued until the year of 2000. Ten years later I finally could stand long enough to brush my teeth, partly through a shower, I could wear clothes. Thank god too, because we could not afford the Chiropractors and Acupuncture anymore and my father suffered a heart- attack and had a quintuple bypass surgery and he could not carry me or drive me anymore.
I NEEDED HELP AND STARTED GETTING INFORMED AS IT HAD BEEN TOO PAINFUL FOR ME IN THE PAST, AND EVEN WRITING THIS LETTER SETS ME INTO TEARS; I DO IT FOR MY LITTLE MIRACLE, MY FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN NEVER GIVE HER THE LIFE I COULD HAVE. I CONTACTED OUR CONGRESSMAN, A. WEINER, QUEENS, NY, WHO I AM GRATEFUL TO AS HE CONTACTED HILLARY CLINTON, SUPTEINTENDANT SERIO- DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; C. MURPHY, AND OTHERS WERE BEING FOUGHT BY ME REGARDING MY DISABILITY; ALL OF THE MIS-DIAGNOSES; NOW THAT INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE, THIMEROSAL WAS A HOT TOPIC.
MY DOCTORS WERE WILLING TO TESTIFY AND IT WAS REPORTED TO THE CDC AND THE VACCINE INJURY HOTLINE ONCE THESE WERE CREATED. THERE WERENT THE LAWS WHEN I WAS INJURED THAT THE DOCTORS HAD TO REPORT IT TO THE CDC, THERE WAS NO VAERS, WHICH I AM STILL NOT A PART OF. IT APPEARS THAT THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR A CHILD THAN AN ADULT. IT SHOULDN’T MATTER AT WHAT AGE THIS OCCURS, WHAT IS WORSE A CHILD WHO DOESN’T KNOW LIFE YET, OR SOMEONE’S LIFE THAT IS RIPPED APART?
LAWYERS THAN SAID THE DOCTORS WOULD BE FIRED IF THEY TESTIFIED AND THIS WAS COMMON PRACTICE with VAERS, AS THE GOVT WAS COVERING UP. MY DOCTORS WILL AND STILL WILL, IF NEED BE AFTER THE HORROR THEY SAW ME GO THROUGH. I HAVE SPOKEN TO THEM RECENTLY ABOUT THIS AND THEY ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TAKE THE RISK AS THEY FEEL A VIBRANT, BRAVE, YOUNG WOMAN WAS LED TO ALMOST DEATH, DISABILITY, AND POVERTY. YOU GET PENALIZED FOR GOING TO COLLEGE BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN’T CONTRIBUTE ENOUGH IN TAXES YOU CAN ONLY GET $400. A MONTH AND FOOD STAMPS, WHICH DO NOT COVER TOILET PAPER, SOAP, LAUNDRY DETERGENT, PAPER TOWELS, CLOTHING ETC.
I HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING THESE LETTERS FROM Congress AND NOTHING WAS EVER DONE ABOUT IT FOR ME OR BY VAERS, CDC ETC. THE LETTERS KEPT STATING I NEEDED PERMISSION ON A FEDERAL LEVEL TO BE ACCEPTED TO THE VACCINE ADVERSE EFFECT FUND. NO ONE WAS EVER ABLE TO BE REACHED, ALTHOUGH IT WAS REPORTED AND I WAS GIVEN A SPECIFIC NUMBER TO REFER TO. IT APPEARS THAT THE VACCINES HAVE BEEN ADDED AND ARE BACK-DATED TO THIS PERIOD now. I HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO WRITE THIS LETTER TO MERC PHARMACEUTICALS LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO NOTIFY THEM AND TO ASK FOR COMPENSATION TO AVOID LAUNCHING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM A WOMAN NAMED ANGELIQUE, WHO STATED SHE WAS THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO HILLARY CLINTON AND IF THIS DID NOT RESOLVE ANYTHING, HILLARY CLINTON WOULD BE HANDLING THIS AS A PERSONAL MATTER AND never did anything or answered my calls afterwards.
I AM STILL DISABLED TO DATE AND HAVE A FOUR YEAR OLD TO SUPPORT. I HAVE HAD FOURTEEN AMBULATORY SURGERIES, 3 SURGERIES, AND HAVE TAKEN THOUSANDS OF PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS FOR THIS WHEN MY LIFE SUDDENLY CHANGED AT THE EARLY AGE OF TWENTYFIVE, AFTER ONE YEAR OF ENTERING THIS SCHOOL AFTER COMPLETING MY B.S. DEGREE.
IN ADDITION, IN 2000, I HAD MY GALL BLADDER REMOVED AT NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, FOREST HILLS, NY BY DR. ALANDEWI; WHO STATES THAT I HAD BILIARY DYSKENESIA DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF MEDICATION I HAD BEEN ON FOR YEARS. HE FELT IT WAS VERY RARE FOR SOMEONE MY AGE TO HAVE THIS.
I HAVE SUFFERED MANY YEARS NOW AND CONTINUE TO DO SO.I AM BEGGING FOR A CHANCE TO AFFORD MY YOUNG CHILD A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE AS I LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME, A SMALL ONE FROM SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY. I AM A SINGLE MOTHER, AND HAD TO MOVE TO MONTREAL, CANADA, TO BE NEAR MY FAMILY AS I NEED THEIR HELP IN RAISING HER DUE TO MY LIMITED ABILITIES. SHE IS MY REASON FOR LIVING AND TO ME A MIRACLE FOR ALL THE HELL I HAVE BEEN THROUGH. I DO NOT WANT HER TO BE RAISED IN POVERTY, SHE ALREADY SEES ME SUFFER, TAKE MEDICATION, CONSTANT DOCTORS’ APPOINTMENTS, BRACES, ETC. MY LIFE WAS STOLEN FROM ME I WANT AND BEG FOR THE CHANCE TO GIVE HER A GOOD LIFE. I AM NOT JUST A NUMBER. MY NAME IS CATHERINE HAMON, BS, CRA, AAS, MA, AS I CONTINUED MY STUDIES WHEN I AM ABLE TO AND CLEAR ENOUGH SINCE THE MEDICATION MAKES YOU FORGETFUL, LACK OF ENERGY, ETC.
MY CURRENT DIAGNOSES ARE:
GUILLIAN BAR SYNDROME
MYELOPATHY
FIBROMYALGIA WITH MYOFACIAL RADICULOPATHY
MY CURRENT MEDICATION REGIME:
PAXIL 70MG DAILY FOR BURNING AND ANTI-DEPRESSANT PROPERTIES
LYRICA 50MG, TID-NEUROMUSCULAR
ALERTEC-MODOFANIL – 100MG, BID-ENERGY;ANTI-NARCOLEPTIC AND EXPENSIVE
CLONAZEPAM, 50MG, BID
VICODIN 750MG, TID
I AM NOW BEING EVALUATED BY HOSPITAL-in Canada-CHRONIC PAIN CENTER BY:
DR. F-RHEUMOTOLOGIST AND DR. G; WHO ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MIX OF MEDICATIONS NY HAS ME ON AND THAT THE SIDE –EFFECTS MAY BE HORRIFIC AND I AM UNDERGOING EXAMS AGAIN.
I AM NOW FUNCTIONAL, WITH MEDICATIONS, BUT MY CONDITION VARIES WITH WEATHER ETC, AND SOME DAYS ARE MUCH HARDER THAN OTHERS. I WILL BE ON MEDICATION THE REST OF MY LIFE WHICH I FOUGHT VERY HARD NOT TO BE ON. I FINALLY CHOSE PERHAPS A SHORTER LIFE BUT A MORE FUNCTIONALONE.
WHOEVER READS THIS, PLEASE FIND THE COMPASSION IN YOUR HEART TO HELP. I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS AND WILL SUFFER IN PAIN PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY UNTIL I DIE. I AM NOW FORTYTWO YEARS OLD.I AM TEMPORARILY RESIDING IN CANADA FOR ONE YEAR AS I CANNOT TAKE CARE OF MYSELF AT TIMES AND MY OLD-AGED PARENTS HELP ME.
I BEG AND ASK THAT YOU FIND THE MERCY, COMPASSION AND KINDNESS IN YOUR HEART TO DO SOMETHING TO COMPENSATE ME COMPENSATE ME FOR WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH AND WILL CONTINUE TO UNTIL I DIE.
MY MAIN REASON IS TO GIVE MY DAUGHTER, BRIANNA, A CHANCE OF HAVING A GOOD LIFE, WITH SECURITY. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, SO SHE CAN GO TO SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, SO WE DON’T HAVE TO WAIT ON FOOD LINES ANYMORE OR TAKE FURNITURE FROM THE GARBAGE ANYMORE. I BEG, AND ASK AS A MOTHER, WHO WANTS TO SEE HER CHILD NOT SUFFER FOR THE HORRORS THAT HAPPENED TO ME. IT IS MY RIGHT, AND AN OBLIGATION FROM YOUR COMPANY TO DO SO AS YOU ARE A BIG PART OF THE CAUSE. I ASK FOR WHAT IS FAIR, I TRUST IN GOD, AND HE SEES ALL AND I KNOW THAT JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL.
I CANNOT AFFORD LIFE INSURANCE; APT INSURANCE ETC. PLEASE FIND IT IN YOUR HEART TO DO THE RIGHT THING. I COULD HAVE APPROACHED THIS WITH A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT; I HAVE NOT. I HAVE COME TO YOU TO SEEK RETRIBUTION FOR WHAT I HAVE SUFFERED THROUGH AND WISH ONLY THAT YOU MAY NEVER KNOW THE HORRORS OF PAIN THE BRAIN CAN CREATE.
YOU HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO BE IN A BETTER POSITION THAN MYSELF. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO ME BECAUSE OF GENETICS, OR ON ITS OWN. IT WAS INDUCED BY THE VACCINES THEREFORE; IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY SINCE YOU CREATED THESE. AGAIN, IT DESTROYED MANY LIVES; I AM ONE PERSON ASKING, PRIVATELY, WITHOUT INCLUDING THE OTHER CLASS MEMBERS.
I HAVE SPOKEN TO MANY LAWYERS WHO ADVISE ME DIFFERENTLY BUT I AM TRYING TO HAVE FAITH IN YOUR COMPANY AND IN DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR ME AS WELL AS FOR THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT FOUR YEAR OLD. DON’T CONDEMN HER TO A LIFE THAT WAS BESTOWED UPON ME. I WAS A LEADER AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE IF I HAVE TO. MY VOICE WILL BE HEARD, BOOKS WILL BE WRITTEN.
I ASK FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF SUFFERING AND THE REST OF MY LIFE ON MEDICATION. I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG I WILL HAVE TO LIVE BUT I WANT TO KNOW MY DAUGHTER WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY. I HAVE ENOUGH DEGREES THAT I SHOULD AND COULD HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL BUT YOUR VACCINES TOOK THAT AWAY. I ASK THAT YOU FAVOR MY REQUEST FOR MY FAMILY, MY PARENTS AND THEIR SUFFERING THROUGH THIS, AND MOST OF ALL FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE. I TRUST YOUR FAIRNESS, INTEGRITY, CARING FOR THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING.
THANK YOU, FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND UNDERSTANDING.
CATHERINE
chamon9536@hotmail.com
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