It’s one thing to read the many stories of people adversely affected by the Covid vaccines, quite another to see one in the flesh. I first met Faith Ranson and her mother Tania in November last year, at one of a series of rallies held across Tasmania as part of the worldwide Freedom movement.
Just four days after she had her second Pfizer vaccination Faith developed uncontrollable muscle twitches, crippling seizures and intense abdominal pain. At times she is unable to walk. More than a year later, there’s no end in sight.
An Australian schoolgirl has developed a baffling illness after getting a Covid jab, with the teenager suffering a rare reaction that has left her in excruciating pain and often bed-bound for the past year.
Faith Ranson, now 17, developed painful muscle twitches and intense abdominal pain due to rare side effects doctors believe is linked to a second Pfizer she received in August 2021.
Some local doctors were sceptical that her condition is linked to the vaccine.
Doctors removed her appendix, but the pain remained.
When her mum Tania asked whether the vaccine be responsible she said ‘I was looked at like I was an idiot’ and told ‘don’t be silly’.
One paediatrician even told her the cause of her severe pain and distress was ‘too much screen time’.
But an immunologist was not so sure.
Within three months Ms Ranson was told by a local immunologist he had no doubt that Faith’s adverse delayed reaction to her second Pfizer vaccine had triggered her condition […]
It is believed the side effects occurred after the vaccine destroyed bacteria in Faith’s gut […]
‘There is no question Faith has had a delayed reaction to the second Pfizer vaccination,’ the doctor, who asked not to be named, wrote in an email which has been seen by Daily Mail Australia.
‘She is likely atopic or allergy prone based on history. This collection of symptoms I have characterized as post viral like symptoms.’
This opinion was supported by Dr Ross Walker, a Sydney cardiologist who has seen ’60 to 70′ people with adverse reactions to vaccines in the last year.
‘I agree that’s almost certainly the diagnosis… there’s only about a 0.2 per cent adverse reaction [rate to vaccinations] but we’re still talking about 136,000 people,’ he told 2GB.
‘To me, this is relatively clear what’s happened is that the Covid vaccine has pulverized Faith’s gut bacteria, which gave her the severe abdominal pain and the inability to eat properly.’
In February, she was diagonosed with functional neurological disorder (FND).
FND is a rare condition which affects the functioning of the nervous system, interfering with how the brain and body send and receive signals. Its symptoms include limb weakness, seizures, spasms, and sometimes chronic pain and bowel and bladder symptoms. Treatment is rehab, which Faith has begun, which aims to “retrain the brain”, for example by unlearning abnormal and dysfunctional movement patterns that have developed and relearning normal movement.
However, her mother is adamant that despite Faith missing a year of school, and must repeat Year 11, ‘nothing will hold her back’.
‘She as determined to go to her school formal, even though she was ticking and she could only go for an hour,’ she said.
‘She has always been a tough kid,’ Ms Ranson said of Faith, who was her local junior army battalion cadet of the year at the age of 15.
The same year she received the citizenship award for Launceston Christian School.
However, Faith’s condition means she won’t be able to get medical clearance to join the armed forces and serve for her country.
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Instead, she is now studying criminal psychology online.
Faith’s is just one of the stories of the 136,523 reported adverse events for the Covid vaccines. Although many will be mild, others, as we see, can be horribly debilitating. According to the latest federal budget, payouts for Covid vaccine injuries are expected to reach $77 million in the next year.