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The wife of high-profile doctor, Dr. Kerryn Phelps, still can’t walk without pain 19 months after sustaining a Covid vaccine injury.
Former schoolteacher Jackie Strickler-Phelps has opened up in a Facebook post about the debilitating condition she has struggled with since May 2021.
Ms Strickler-Phelps said the severe side effects began minutes after her first Pfizer injection and caused “damage throughout her body.”
“I had a flare up from my vaccine injury that I have been battling for 18 months and have not been able to walk pain free for days,” he wrote.
“The specialist sent me back for another spinal injection to try to reduce the inflammatory process that started the day I received the injection in May 2021, causing neurological and rheumatological damage throughout my body.”
Dr. Kerryn Phelps’ wife, Jackie Strickler-Phelps (right), still can’t walk without pain 19 months after sustaining a Covid vaccine injury
Ms Strickler-Phelps complained that when Dr Phelps took her to Prince of Wales Hospital in eastern Sydney, few people were wearing masks.
“I was completely exposed as a vulnerable immunocompromised person with maskless people, crowded elevators, and complete disregard for the spread of this highly contagious and potentially fatal disease with lasting immune consequences,” she wrote.
He referenced the dire situation at Melbourne Children’s Hospital, where 120 staff members were inactive with Covid or had close contacts, leading to long delays and overcrowding.
“Sydney is next… no mutual care, no truth telling, just politics,” Ms Strickler-Phelps wrote.
A friend commented on the post saying “nobody’s hearing the truth about any of that”, to which Ms Strickler-Phelps replied “it’s unconscionable”.
Whether he was referring to the lack of masks and social distancing in hospital as being unconscionable, or the struggles of vaccine-injured Australians to be recognized.
A second friend wrote that she and one of her friends also had “major breakouts” from vaccine injuries last week, causing severe pain and swelling.
Ms Strickler-Phelps said the severe side effects began minutes after her first Pfizer injection and caused “damage throughout her body.”
Dr. Phelps detailed her wife’s condition in her submission to a Senate inquiry into long covid, revealing that she, too, suffered ongoing adverse effects.
symptoms included burning in the face and gums, itching sensation and numbness of the hands and feet, which were also observed by an attending physician and nurse.
“I’m still seeing the devastating effects a year and a half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms, including nerve pain, impaired sense of smell, visual disturbances, and musculoskeletal inflammation,” Dr. Phelps wrote.
The diagnosis and causality have been confirmed by several specialists who have told me they have seen ‘many patients in a similar situation’.
Dr. Phelps explained that her own adverse effects began after her second dose of Pfizer in July 2021 and have continued to this day.
“In my case, the injury resulted in dysautonomia with intermittent fevers and cardiovascular implications including shortness of breath, inappropriate sinus tachycardia, and blood pressure fluctuations,” he wrote.
Dysautonomia are problems with the nervous system, while tachycardia induces rapid heartbeat.
Despite suffering the terrible side effects of their injections, the couple continued to promote vaccination against covid.
Ms Strickler-Phelps complained that when Dr Phelps took her to Prince of Wales Hospital in eastern Sydney, few people were wearing masks.
In July 2021, Ms. Strickler-Phelps posted a segment on ABC’s The Drum where she discussed the covid vaccine, among other related topics.
Several other publications have since encouraged vaccination but stressed it was only part of the solution, lashing out at the NSW and federal governments for removing restrictions within a year and failing to impose mask mandates as cases rose. .
‘Can’t we get rid of this government before they kill us all?’ she wrote about NSW in December 2021 when covid cases hit 3000 a day and she ended the mask mandate.
Since mid-2021, Dr. Phelps has appeared to moderate her stance on covid vaccines to focus on urging Australians to wear masks and avoid crowds.
“While vaccines were, and continue to be, an important part of the response, we were warned not to rely on vaccines alone,” he wrote in a January 2022 op-ed.
She argued that immunity from the vaccine was only temporary and even protection from a booster would likely wane in a few months.
It’s not clear if this change was related to her and her wife’s vaccine injuries, or simply a change in focus with the release of the vaccine very well.
Despite suffering the terrible side effects of their injections, the couple continued to promote vaccination against covid.
However, on August 5, 2021, weeks after the adverse effects began and three months after his wife’s vaccine injury, Dr. Phelps urged infant immunization.
“How could we reach 80 percent of the population vaccinated or get close to herd immunity until children can be vaccinated?” she wrote.
“In 2019, around 19.28 per cent of Australia’s population were aged 0-14, 64.8 per cent 15-64, and 15.92 per cent aged 65 and over.”
He then wrote in July: “There’s definitely a very significant reduction in the rates of death and severe acute illness if you’ve had three or four vaccinations.”
Daily Mail Australia contacted Ms Strickler-Phelps and Dr Phelps for further comment.
Dr. Phelps claimed that she reported her adverse reactions to the Covid injection to the drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but there was never any follow-up.
He said other doctors also “experienced a serious and persistent adverse event” but that “vaccine injury is a topic few in the medical profession have wanted to talk about.”
“Medical profession regulators have censored public discussion of post-immunization adverse events, with threats to doctors not to make public statements about anything that ‘could undermine the government’s vaccine rollout’ or risk suspension. or loss of your record,” he wrote.
AHPRA and the national medical boards advised doctors in March 2021 not to “undermine” the national vaccine rollout.
“Any promotion of anti-vaccination statements or health advice that contradicts the best available scientific evidence or seeks to actively undermine the national immunization campaign… may violate codes of conduct and be subject to investigation and possible regulatory action,” the statement said. said the joint statement.
Dr. Phelps said that other physicians also “experienced a serious and persistent adverse event,” but that “vaccine injury is a topic few in the medical profession have wanted to talk about.”
AHPRA denied that this inhibited the way doctors carried out their functions.
“Doctors should not be afraid to take notes on the vaccine,” AHPRA said.
‘It is good medical practice and a professional obligation for physicians to keep accurate medical records.
“We encourage professionals to discuss the various vaccines with their patients and use their professional judgment and the best available evidence to help the patient make the safest decisions.”
AHPRA said it only intervened “where the public is at grave risk.”
“The Board’s expectations of registered health professionals in relation to vaccination and public health matters are not new and predate the Covid-19 pandemic,” AHPRA said.
Dr. Phelps’ presentation did not call for a change in the vaccine rollout, but simply for more transparency about the prevalence of adverse effects, and he opposed censoring doctors for talking about them.