Sherry Romney shares what happened to her son, a 6'9" high school basketball player, after he got the COIDV injection. She also shares the story of her other son, Everest, who was also a star basketball player at her son s high school and has been in the ICU in the hospital for almost a month now. She talks about the process of getting her son to the doctor, and the results of the CT scan, and how her son is doing. She also talks about how she and her family are coping with the loss of a member of her son's basketball team, and what they are doing to make sure her son recovers fully and is able to continue playing basketball in the future. Thank you, Sherry, for sharing your story and for being brave enough to share it with the world. Thank you also, to all the doctors and nurses who have been caring for her son and the other athletes in her family. You are a blessing and a blessing to her family! Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have about her son or Everest. We are always open to suggestions for future episodes. Thanks for listening and supporting this podcast! If you like it, please leave us a rating and review it on Apple Podcasts! Music: Fair Weather Fans by The Baseball Project - "Good Morning America" by Fountains of Wayne State University - "Outro Music: "Sparrothead" by Suneaters "Goodbye" by The Good Morning America - "Thank you for listening to this podcast and Good Luck & Good Luck" by Haley and Good Morning California - "I hope you enjoy this episode! - "The Good Morning Crew" by Kami & I hope you'll come back next week for a new episode of Good Morning Cozy" - "A Good Luck! "Good Luck!" - "Serendor "A Little More" by Shadydave "By Haley and I hope You'll Come Back Soon" by Eddy and I'll See Me & I'll Talk About This Week's New Song "Good Day" by Puff & I Can't Say That Soon - "Prayer" by Sarah's Song "Thank You, Thank You, Sarah & I Love You, I'll Hear Me & Goodnight & I'm Not Sorry by You'll See You Soon (featuring Me & Thank You" by Mr. Eddy "I'll Hear You"
00:00:00.000I'm joined today by Sherry Romney from Draper, Utah, and I wanted to ask you, Sherry, about what's happened to your family following the COVID shots.
00:01:06.000The very next day we were at the pediatrician's office because he had so much swelling in his neck that he couldn't move his neck without using his hands.
00:01:39.000He'd had swelling and a lot of pain in his neck.
00:01:43.000He thinks that night, he started complaining about it on Thursday, the 22nd, but he says that it started kind of feeling sore that very night.
00:01:54.000He's an athlete, so, you know, little owies kind of don't tend to, he doesn't tend to pay attention, but by the time he got done with his tournament, he could barely move his head.
00:02:07.000So we took him into the pediatrician, and the pediatrician said it was a pulled muscle, thought it was a pulled muscle.
00:03:34.000The doctor said, well, yeah, he has a really swollen lymph node next to his jugular.
00:03:38.000Well, he actually didn't say it was next to his jugular, which he had, because it should have probably been paid a little more close attention to it.
00:03:45.000But he said, if he's not doing better, then maybe you need to go see an ENT kind of thing.
00:03:51.000By Monday, my son had had a headache, a migraine nonstop for eight days, and I was done.
00:03:59.000I had been trying to get him into the emergency room.
00:04:02.000But my son had been a little resistant because, like I said, he's an athlete.
00:04:36.000He has two cerebral venous sinus thromboses in his head.
00:04:42.000And he has, we don't know about long-term damage at this point.
00:04:47.000Early indications are that he's probably going to be okay long-term.
00:04:52.000In the meantime, He has to be escorted to the bathroom to get up and in and out of the bathtub whenever he's walking to the table because he's so dizzy and he has some terrible brain swelling from the trauma to his brain.
00:05:46.000He got it on the 21st and same day as my son.
00:05:50.000And he'd been having some pains in his chest and in his, and he thought it was like, he chucked it up to anything, pulled muscle.
00:05:58.000Like I said, he's athletic, pulled muscle.
00:06:01.000He did say at one point the pain was so bad, he wondered if maybe he was having a heart attack, but it wasn't up in his shoulder.
00:06:06.000So he ignored it and he waited and it went away.
00:06:09.000And it had been happening since about the fifth or sixth day after the shock.
00:06:14.000But we've been dealing with my son, and my husband had just been kind of ignoring the pains.
00:06:19.000Well, what happened on Saturday morning was that he had a pulmonary infarction, which means he's lost about a fourth of his left lung permanently.
00:06:28.000When they got him to the emergency room, they did an x-ray, and they saw that his lungs looked terrible.
00:07:50.000They looked at the most obscure of illnesses.
00:07:54.000They tried so hard to put like a, you know, a round peg in a square hole and it wasn't working.
00:08:00.000And finally on the last day they said, okay, yeah, we think this may have something to do with the vaccine.
00:08:06.000Finally, like probably a couple hours before we left.
00:08:09.000It was the first time they actually finally admit it, really.
00:08:12.000When my husband went in, his physician said he actually refused to do one of the antibody tests that is more indicative of whether or not when my husband got the shot he might already have had COVID. Because we did find out that my son had already been exposed to COVID. What we do know is that thromboses are more common,
00:08:35.000and we know this just already from how many shots been given, if you get the shot when you have a lot of antibodies to COVID already.
00:08:45.000In other words, if you had a fairly recent case of COVID. Having said that, my son was tested Every other week, because he's an athlete, so he could play, and it came back negative.
00:08:54.000So we're trusting these tests that are not very useful to us.
00:08:58.000We took him in to get the shot because we thought that's what was best for him.
00:09:03.000We had no idea he had been exposed to COVID. None whatsoever.
00:09:21.000I checked their temperatures before we all went in.
00:09:24.000Like, no one was sick, no sore throats, nothing like that.
00:09:28.000But the doctor at my husband's hospital said he did think it was highly suspicious that both my husband and my son, following the jab, got blood clots.
00:10:47.000We're big into hiking and outdoor stuff and sports.
00:10:51.000My husband and my son play basketball every day.
00:10:55.000My son is what I would consider an elite athlete.
00:11:01.000It was probably just the most devastating thing to see him going from scoring 16, 18 points in a game to the ICU within a matter of days.
00:11:11.000The only thing that has carried us has been everybody's prayers.
00:11:17.000And I felt it, and I just, I mean, or their positive thoughts, and I've needed it because I've had to carry this all alone.
00:11:27.000And now then with my husband coming down and being in bed and having to recover from these blood clots, it's been, I need everybody's support and I have been very appreciative of it.
00:11:39.000Was there coverage in the local press or the national press?
00:11:45.000So there was some, but a lot of it was cut and pasted.
00:11:49.000You know, people ask me about the vaccine and my perspective on the vaccine and I said, That I thought everyone needed to weigh their own rewards with the potential risk.
00:12:00.000And that I thought they needed to do what was best.
00:12:03.000I'm only learning about, and I was always careful about vaccines, but I'm only learning about a lot of the stuff that we didn't know about vaccines.
00:12:11.000And I feel like we haven't had accurate reporting, it seems like to me.
00:12:16.000And it's not that I think vaccines aren't good.
00:12:20.000I do think that they'll be better if we have more open and accurate reporting and if we can make them even better and safer if we can share this information rather than being fearful of it or hiding it or brushing it under the rug.
00:12:37.000So I did have some news outlets and I actually had a lot of help from two particular reporters who were wonderful and helped connect me with some doctors who I could maybe Talk to because they had some experience with interviewing other people who had negative side effects and that was very helpful.
00:12:55.000One of them connected me to a physician who's got some experience with this and he helped guide a little bit some of the testing that was done on my son and that was very helpful.
00:13:25.000Even my own daughter went to dance and a little girl came up to her and said, your mom says that this has nothing to do with COVID and the COVID shot.
00:13:36.000And my daughter said, that's not true.
00:14:18.000They are being dismissive and it's causing further complications.
00:14:22.000So yes, there has been some backlash, but for the most part, everyone, regardless of the vaccine component, I've had a lot of support, more support than I have had backlash.
00:14:36.000I've just been surprised at how My words have been taken out of context, especially by people who haven't interviewed me and how I've been summarized without having ever talked to them, things like that.
00:14:49.000About two weeks ago, the Lancet, which is one of the highest, maybe the highest gravitas medical journal, published the The demographic data on COVID-19 injuries,
00:15:05.000and what they say is based upon their data sets, that the risk from COVID, the disease, to children between four years old and 17 years old is 1.6 deaths per million.
00:15:23.000And what I think worries a lot of people We don't advise people to get the vaccine or not to get the vaccine.
00:15:32.000We try to give people information, that's all.
00:15:35.000I think one of the things that's really troubling to me is we really don't know how many people like Everest are out there who are getting injured by the vaccine.
00:15:46.000We have no way of gauging whether the risk from the vaccine is worse than the risk from COVID. The risk from COVID is basically zero to that age group.
00:16:01.000In fact, the Lancet article and the BMJ, the British Medical Journal, have said the risk to older cohorts is about 1,200 times the risk to young people.
00:16:13.000There basically is zero risk to young people.
00:16:16.000And if the vaccine has any risk at all, then you have to question whether or not You know, we should even be giving it to children the age of at risk.
00:16:41.000What I will tell you is that the way they categorize my son's side effects are acute lymphadenopathy, which just means swollen lymph nodes.
00:16:56.000So depending on how it's reported, it isn't even showing how bad the possible side effects of the shot are.
00:17:03.000So that is concerning to me because I did not know it was such a low risk for him to get COVID. I did it because of what was being told to me and I did it because My son is on an elite traveling team, and he's gone every weekend, and I thought I was doing what was best for him and what was safe.
00:17:23.000The reality is he'd already been exposed to COVID, and I didn't even know it.
00:17:28.000My biggest fear is that children probably are the highest ones that are walking around out there Who have been exposed to COVID without us knowing it.
00:17:36.000And we're giving them the shot and potentially increasing their risk too of the side effects of that shot because we don't know how soon.
00:17:44.000We don't know if they're presently, if they're in the middle of COVID, but asymptomatic and they're getting the shot.
00:17:50.000To me, from my perspective and having experienced what I've experienced, it doesn't seem worth the risk.
00:17:55.000But in the very least, I think every parent should have the right to make that decision.
00:18:02.000I can't tell you, and I don't know how your audience would feel, but I can't tell you how horrible it is to know that it was my choice and that basically my choice did this to him.
00:18:17.000And in other words, I had a very healthy, very active, athletic little boy who's right in the middle of recruiting season and now can barely walk.
00:18:30.000As a parent, we do our very best to make the decisions we make for our children because we think it's what we're doing that's for the best of our child.
00:18:39.000But if we're not given all the information, how can we be making the right decision?
00:18:44.000And that's very, I think that's very wrong.
00:19:55.000But there are people who clearly are reacting to the COVID vaccine very negatively, with lingering side effects, and it's not really being reported or talked about.
00:20:25.000It's not angry so much as helpless a little bit you know that and deceived we feel deceived and helpless and he is my husband is amazing he is a rock star he is so strong and my son is too and they are trying really hard to spend time on okay Like in the hospital,
00:20:51.000my son kept saying to the doctors, he's fought them pretty dang hard.
00:20:56.000Where he's at right now with regard to his basketball is he's saying, I don't care if the risk is that it might kill me, I'm gonna play basketball.
00:21:07.000And because of that determination, because of his attitude and his character and my husband's character, we're to the point now where it's just, we wanna look forward.
00:21:19.000How are we going to heal from this as a family and get back to hopefully as close to the lives we had as before?
00:21:27.000At the same time, how are we going to help others so they don't have to go through this?
00:21:32.000And so for all of us as a family, that's probably been the biggest thing is that we've decided we have to talk about it because we didn't know.
00:21:44.000We didn't know what we were getting into.
00:21:46.000We didn't know what risk we were taking.
00:21:49.000And I think it's easier to make a decision and end up being on the side of having had negative reactions if you knew that was even, you know, a likelihood or a possibility.
00:22:00.000But really went into it thinking, we'll be fine, it's the first shot, not a big deal.
00:22:04.000I find myself completely at a loss because I'm actually a psychologist and I do all the emotional side on our family, but my husband is a cloud architect.
00:22:15.000So this has been a huge challenge for me because My resource, my number one resource is kind of not available now.
00:22:22.000And I've had to learn how to, I mean, it sounds funny, but open my own email, like on our main computer, you know, because normally it just comes up on my phone.
00:23:01.000There are literally hundreds of thousands of moms in our community who have been through, you know, of children who are injured because they did what their doctors told them to do.
00:23:13.000They did what people they trusted told them to do.
00:23:19.000That's how virtually everybody in this community ended up in this community, not because they were anti-vax, just because they were trying to do the best thing for their children based upon...
00:23:31.000The information they had, and they saw the injuries, and they started educating themselves.
00:23:37.000And you need to take the experience, and I know you're already doing this, that you've been through, and the pain that you've been through, and the injury that you've suffered, and try to turn that into something really good.
00:23:51.000I think that's what God wants us to do with our suffering.
00:24:21.000Well, I want to thank you for joining me, Shree Ramney, and I want to ask all of the people to take a moment today, just take a minute of your time to send your prayers to this amazing family that Everest heals, Preston heals, that you heal, and That you don't carry bad feelings about yourself.
00:24:42.000You know that you're a good mother and that you did what you knew from the information that you were given was in their best interest at that time.
00:24:54.000And please, to all of you who listen to this, please send your prayer to this amazing family.
00:25:01.000Thank you for joining me, Sherry, and thank you for sharing your story with us.