Julian Scholefield says he did everything possible to protect himself and his family from the coronavirus. The B.C. man says he received his first Pfizer vaccination shot in May of 2021. Six months later, he went back for his second shot and said everything was fine, adding he didn’t even have a sore arm after getting the injection.
Two weeks later, though, the Okanagan resident said things took a rapid turn for the worse when he and his family were enjoying a day out on the lake. “I was sitting, driving the boat. I realized my left leg started to feel funny and tingly,” Scholefield told Global News. “And it didn’t go away. In fact, it started to get worse.”
Within two hours, Scholefield was paralyzed from the waist down. The Summerland man would spend three months in three different hospitals. Doctors finally diagnosed him with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or ADEM. “A neurologist who really took an in-depth study into my case did further testing on me,” said Scholefield, “and was able to essentially eliminate any other causes except for the covid(-19) vaccine.”
