A nurse who ignored her family’s pleas from ‘conspiracy theorists’ to refuse the Covid vaccine has regretted it after being hospitalized following the jab.
Nurse Haylee Horton, 45, was diagnosed with a “post-vaccination immune reaction” at Perth’s Peel Health Campus hospital after a five-day stay.
Haylee resumed breastfeeding in late 2021 after maternity leave, but required a Covid vaccine to do so, as part of Western Australia’s mandates at the time.
However, four family members expressed their opposition to the coup.
“They begged me not to have it, my aunt in particular,” Horton told Daily Mail Australia.
“At that moment, to be honest, everyone seemed very crazy. We almost had a family fight. I thought they were all crazy, honestly.
Perth nurse Haylee Horton, 45, says she quickly regretted her decision to receive the Covid vaccine after an immune reaction to the vaccine left her fighting for her life in hospital.
On October 11, 2021, Ms Horton asked her GP for advice about the Covid vaccine.
He told her she was at increased risk of contracting Covid due to her underlying multiple sclerosis, which has been kept under control by semi-annual infusions of an autoimmune medication since she was diagnosed in 2014.
“I’ve never had any problems with any other vaccine,” Mr. Horton said.
“As nurses, we have to take all these kinds of hits.”
Following her doctor’s advice, Ms Horton received a Pfizer vaccine at a local doctor’s office in south-west Perth.
Ms Horton spent five days in hospital shortly after receiving her second Pfizer vaccine and was diagnosed with a post-vaccine immune reaction.
For the next two days, Mrs. Horton said she felt “pretty rubbish” and I was fatigued.
However, he attributed it to having a young daughter who was a magnet for bringing viruses into the home.
Horton received his second Pfizer shot on November 12.
The following weekend, Horton was hosting a joint birthday party for herself and her daughter when she burned her tongue on some asparagus.
“(The burn) turned into a huge ulcer on my tongue,” he said.
The next morning she woke up with a severe headache, sore throat and nausea, forcing her to stay in bed.
The next day he began to vomit, shake from fever and suffer a “severe headache.”
On November 17, a family friend took Mrs Horton to A&E at Perth’s Peel Health Campus while her husband cared for their one-year-old baby.
Eventually, a doctor told Ms. Horton that she had neutropenia, meaning she had a severe decrease in infection-fighting white blood cells.
“I realized how sick I was and how dangerous it could have been for me to be left in an open ward with such a compromised immune system,” Ms Horton said.
Perth nurse ‘never had problems with any other vaccine’ before getting Covid jab
After receiving overnight antibiotics, Ms. Horton’s white blood cell count improved significantly, approaching normal levels, but her neutrophil levels remained low.
A doctor wanted to send Mrs Horton home, but she told him she still felt “terrible”.
“Then I told him my stomach hurt and when he touched me I almost went through the roof,” he said.
“He ordered an ultrasound and it revealed acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder).”
This led to four more nights in hospital, where Ms Horton was given antibiotics and painkillers.
She was eventually discharged and her discharge summary said she had suffered a “post-vaccination immune reaction.”
Ms Horton’s health deteriorated rapidly after receiving her second Pfizer Covid vaccine, leading to her spending five days in hospital (file image)
Despite receiving a letter from a neurology professor informing her that she had had a life-threatening reaction to the vaccine, Ms Horton was told she still needed a third shot to breastfeed again.
Ms Horton was told she would still need a third Covid vaccine to return to work as a nurse due to the state’s strict vaccination mandates at the time.
She requested a waiver of that requirement, providing a letter from a neurology professor that said she had “a documented adverse reaction to both her first and second Pfizer coronavirus (vaccine) … leading to an admission hospital stay of 6 days with potential risk of life”. -Menacing neutropin’.
“It is medically recognized that neutropenia may be a complication of the Pfizer vaccine…there is a significant risk of neutropenia if another coronavirus (vaccine) is administered,” the letter said.
However, she was not granted any exemption and was forced to leave her job.
Mrs. Horton She said that while conditions such as myocarditis and pericarditis were well documented as adverse effects of the Covid vaccine, other rarer reactions like hers “are likely to go unnoticed”.
“There needs to be a thorough investigation into vaccines and recognition for all the people who have suffered over the last three years,” Ms Horton said.
“Thankfully mine has been resolved, but many are suffering devastating consequences.”
Peel Campus Hospital was contacted for comment but it was not confirmed whether they reported Ms Horton as having an adverse reaction to the vaccine to the medical watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration.