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Brain Cysts, US Surgery, and Gatekept Canadian Care

Day 2 · 0:24:58 · Dr. Michelle Worton · Shawn Buckley

  • 🧬 She developed multiple cystic masses including a brain cyst causing compression and white-matter lesions.
  • ✈️ Unable to get surgery in Canada, she sold her practice, exhausted savings, crowdfunded, and paid over $148,000 CAD for US brain surgery.
  • 🚫 Specialists refuse her once vaccine onset is known; treatments available in Canada are gatekept and she waited years for a neurologist.

Financial and medical barriers force cross-border care.

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Transcript

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:24:58

Yeah. So not only have I been diagnosed with multiple neurological and autoimmune conditions, I have, um, roughly 8 white matter brain lesions that continue to form. I have cystic masses in my liver, pancreas, cervix, breasts, brain. And as we fought for healthcare in Canada, ultimately in 2023, we had to resort to traveling to the United States. I presented with a brain cyst 7 months after my second vaccination, which was causing brain compression.

Shawn Buckley · 0:25:39

I just want to repeat what you said because I think it's really important for people to understand this. So you're having these cystic masses over your entire body, but that includes on your brain. You have one inside your skull and it's getting so large it's actually compressing your brain, which I, I'm not a doctor, but that's a fatal condition once you start getting brain compression. And they're not willing to operate you on you in Canada. So they see it, they know it's there, they know it's compressing your brain, but you can't get a surgery in Canada. So what do you, what do you do? Because you did get a surgery. Can you share us what you as a Canadian vaccine-injured person had to do to still be alive and be able to tell us your story today?

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:26:24

Um, ultimately, because of my symptoms and financial burden, I sold my dental practice. Our assets were sold. All savings gone. And crowdfunding to pay for my life. The healthcare's free in Canada. $148,000 We paid for the surgery alone.

Shawn Buckley · 0:27:05

And that, that's US dollars for brain surgery in the United States?

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:27:08

That was Canadian.

Shawn Buckley · 0:27:09

Oh, Canadian. But you had to travel to the United States to pay for private brain surgery so that you could still be alive?

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:27:18

To date, we're over $300,000 spent on medical care. And we're not done. I returned back to the United States in 2024. Again, no one would help me in Canada, and within 36 hours I was diagnosed with numerous immune and neurological conditions, given a treatment plan that's available in Canada, and it's heavily gatekept. We just got denied the last treatment in July which is blood filtration, plasmapheresis.

Shawn Buckley · 0:27:52

And I just want to explain to everyone what you mean by gatekeeping. Correct me if I've got it wrong. So the treatments are available. You live in British Columbia, but the provincial government will approve them for certain conditions so the specialists and doctors can access those treatments for patients who have certain conditions. But those conditions don't, don't include vaccine injury.

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:28:16

I'm lucky, Sean, if I can get my foot in the door. As soon as specialists see vaccine onset, irrelevant of the fact that I have neurological and autoimmune conditions, they won't see me.

Shawn Buckley · 0:28:32

Can you give us a little more detail about that? Because it's an important point that seems to be coming up that most people don't understand, that, you know, you actually could be treated one way in the hospital system until they find out that it's vaccine injury and it's like a switch goes off.

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:28:49

It is.

Shawn Buckley · 0:28:49

So can you share maybe an example of that that comes to mind?

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:28:56

In order for me to have access to— we have had access to a couple of treatments. Sadly, the specialist in the United States in August of '24 was very clear. He sent a letter to my family doctor saying, if you do not help her, she will get worse. I am substantially worse. And so I did not see a neurologist in person in Canada until May of 2025, last year. I've never seen an immunologist.

Shawn Buckley · 0:29:26

I just want to stop you there because it was on December 18th, 2021, where you started having neurological symptoms that are clearly neurological symptoms, vision. Hotspots, tinnitus, incontinence, dizziness. So you mean to tell us that it's basically 5 years after the onset of very serious neurological systems, uh, symptoms that you're able to access a neurologist in person?

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:29:55

No one had laid hand on me. And so in order for me to see an immunologist, the lengths that we've had to go through And if I didn't have the medical background I did have, I would have given up. We know Canadians that have given up. They're accepting MAiD. They're being offered MAiD. And so in order to even get a referral accepted to an immunologist in British Columbia, we left out vaccine injury.

Shawn Buckley · 0:30:23

Where you basically have to hide the truth.

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:30:25

Absolutely.

Shawn Buckley · 0:30:25

To be able to try and, and then, so not only do doctors have to be kept secret, but you actually have to withhold part of your diagnosis. So, um, I want to show some photos that you have sent to us, um, and maybe we'll pull those up.