Drew served in the army and claims he was ‘encouraged’ to receive the vaccine by Veterans Affairs
An Iraq War veteran has claimed the Covid-19 vaccine made him develop Guillain-Barre Syndrome causing full body paralysis and leaving him with nerve damage.
Drew – who prefers not to share his last name – says he was an ‘otherwise healthy 36-year-old’ before he received the mRNA Pfizer vaccine in April 2021.
After two doses, he says he started experiencing ‘cold/flu symptoms’ which ‘turned to numbness, tingling’ and then to ‘complete paralysis within weeks’.
He says he was hospitalized and diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a very rare progressive nerve disorder that can cause total body paralysis in serious cases. Most people make a full recovery.
He says doctors did not link his illness to the vaccine at first, but claims his medical records have now been updated to show he had a ‘vaccine injury.’ DailyMail.com has requested to see a copy of said records.
Now back at home, Drew says he is raising awareness of vaccine side effects and says he ‘still can’t walk without assistance’.
Drew signed up for the army straight after high school and shortly after was deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On a fundraising page for his medical bills, it says: ‘After a four year break in service he wanted to continue to serve his country and community in the MN, enlisting in the National Guard.
‘Then in 2018, he was deployed again, this time to Kuwait/Middle East.’
After that he retired from the army and took a job in sales just in time for the birth of his son.
Then he says he got a call from Veterans Affairs encouraging him to get the vaccine and telling him ‘it would prevent illness and prevent transmission to elderly mother.’
He told Alpha News: ‘It was done in the atrium … they had some cubicles, and I just went in, sat down and got it. There wasn’t a lot of information. They weren’t really telling me anything.
‘It was just kind of like the basic training assembly line for vaccines on deployment.’
He said he had flu-like symptoms for a few days which then turned to ‘numbness, tingling, my hands, my feet, my toes’.
He said even two and a half years on he still struggles to work and has nerve damage leaving him in pain
He ignored the symptoms, putting them down to stress – but then he said within a few days he could barely move anything.
At first he thought he had Covid-19, but when he was hospitalized, he says he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome.
He says he had to learn how to breathe, eat and walk again.
Two and a half years later he said he is still dealing with the effects, telling Alpha News: ‘I still have it in my face. As you can tell, if you’ve seen pictures, video of me, before I was running races and leading missions and speaking to two-star generals on a weekly basis.
‘It’s completely changed. I feel like I’m in somebody else’s body now that I can’t control. I’m in constant pain, nerve pain, neuropathy, immobile, unless I have assistive devices.
‘I have ankle foot orthotics that wrap around my legs and go underneath the sole of my foot and the shoe in order to stand upright and hobble around.’
He claims it took a year for doctors to make a link between his condition and the vaccine.
He said it took months for the doctors to make a link between the vaccine and his illness
He said: ‘I laid in the hospital bed for months waiting for answers, since it wasn’t COVID.
‘Because they tested me constantly … I was waiting for somebody to come in and really give me honest answers about getting a vaccine and they have this happening, but nobody was connecting the dots there.’
He said doctors ‘weren’t willing’ to discuss the vaccine, but told AlphaNews his records have now been updated to show he has a vaccine injury.
DailyMail.com has not seen said medical records.
On his fundraiser Drew said he is ‘determined to serve any way he can to help his fellow Americans and others on the side of freedom and liberty.’
Written by Isabelle Stanley for The Daily Mail ~ February 20, 2024