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Rehab, Repeat Strokes, and Doctors Who Cannot Speak

Day 2 · 0:57:35 · Vienna Demeduk · Dr. Michelle Worton · Shawn Buckley

  • 🏥 Hemorrhagic transformation, GF Strong rehab, catheterization, and wheelchair dependence followed the first stroke.
  • 🔁 Within a month she had three more clots and another hemorrhage; later strokes continued after moving to Victoria.
  • 🤫 VGH stroke chief privately said she would lose her license if she linked it to the vaccine; charts were heavily redacted.

Ongoing strokes and institutional silence.

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Transcript

Vienna Demeduk · 0:57:35

And Then I went, I was in the ICU because I had a brain hemorrhage 3 days later, which is called a hemorrhagic transformation. So it's when you bleed around the original stroke site. And that set me back quite a bit. I think, you know, then everyone kind of started whispering and this neurosurgeon was like, oh, no big deal. I can go in there and stop the bleed. Like he was very matter of fact about it, but Then eventually I got moved to, I think, like a step-down kind of acute care neurology floor. And then eventually I went to Jeff Strong Rehab Hospital in Vancouver. And if you end up at Jeff Strong, you have had a catastrophic injury. It's like, yeah, it's like the most depressing place because everybody is so severely injured. And I started learning how to walk again. I couldn't look after myself. I was catheterized. I couldn't use the washroom on my own. When I got to GF, that was finished with, but it was still— I was in a wheelchair.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:58:39

I know it's hard. You look at me like— I think Dean mentioned that, that we all appear, a lot of us, just to be totally fine.

Dr. Michelle Worton · 0:58:45

But it was—.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:58:50

The whole thing is just catastrophic. It's like And then I had a month— less than a month later, I had 3 more blood clots and ended up back in the ER and another brain hemorrhage. The original doctor that saw me, I remember her whispering like, oh, what is she doing back in here? And I remember yelling at her going, well, because you kind of didn't address the real reason I'm in here. It was a giant white elephant everywhere I went. Like at GF Strong, nobody was talking about it. Not one doctor addressed it. The head stroke doc at BGH did tell me in private that she would lose her license if she spoke about it. I said, but you're willing to let me die.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:30

I just want to be clear so that the head stroke doctor.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:34

Yes.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:35

At which hospital?

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:36

BGH.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:37

At Victoria General Hospital.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:38

It was Vancouver General.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:39

Vancouver. Okay.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:39

Yeah. I had more strokes in Victoria General too.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:42

Right. Right. That's my confusion.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:45

I'm laughing about it, but it's so ridiculous when you think about it.

Shawn Buckley · 0:59:48

Is telling you verbally, so like face to face. Yeah, this is vaccine injury.

Vienna Demeduk · 0:59:53

Yeah, but she said she couldn't talk about it and everyone would whisper. It was actually the CT guys the first few days when I was in the ICU and they were taking me down like in one of those giant nets because I couldn't walk. Right. It's like a giant hammock because they can't lift you. They were whispering all the time that you're like the 7th person this week that's super physically fit. They were seeing it. They were seeing young people like me. Well, youngish at the time, maybe not so much anymore, but that were injured and young, like super athletic people especially. And I said, why are we all whispering? Like, I had no idea. I was so naive about what was going on, like so naive. And I mean, why would I think otherwise? Like, you know, I just thought some of these people must have your back, right? But no, it was, it was crazy. And ultrasound scanners and MRI people, they were the ones that were telling me what they were seeing, you know. And, um, it is hard to fathom, like, for anybody listening to this outside of the people that are injured, I understand it is really hard to fathom the level of— I don't even know what to call it.

Vienna Demeduk · 1:01:05

It's like this evil. It's like levels of corruption. And the medical doctors that were willing to speak to me about it was always when there was else in the room. And the stuff they put in my medical files are so redacted, like it's not even truthful. Like, they just, they redacted my entire medical file from VGH Hospital. Um, yeah, the level of corruption you kind of uncover, like, it's just sort of, it's so beyond, like, I live in a completely different reality. Like, I'm in some other reality with all these other injured people And it's like, you, you better be strong to deal with this mentally because it is like so hard to comprehend. There's literally no one has your back. And like Michelle was saying, the medical gaslighting is so beyond belief. Like, you feel like you're in the Twilight Zone constantly, you know, and you literally can't get any help. So I went a couple of years where I only saw one doctor at GF.

Vienna Demeduk · 1:02:08

Who I had, you know, I respect hugely because he just stood by my side. He was— I think he was scared because I literally had no one following me medically at all, like no one doing follow-up MRIs like they did the bare minimum you do with stroke. But that was it. And then, like I said, I moved to Victoria last year trying to go back to my job. They told me I would never work again. I have CPP disability and I have a permanent disability tax credit, but I was so determined. I thought, I'm just going to try. I wanted so much to just have some type of normalcy in my life again, like something that I used to do. And this lovely woman in Victoria that owns 3 clinics, she was supposed to hire me before this all happened. She said, let's just give it a go, you know? So I was going to work 1 day a week on 2 people and And then I had 3 more strokes, and it was shocking to me because I thought, okay, maybe I'm past this, right?

Vienna Demeduk · 1:03:08

But I hadn't had an MRI in 3 or 4 years, like zero medical follow-up. And they had found there was all these blood clots in my head, ones I didn't even know I had. So I've been having strokes, and they were smaller strokes. But people have to understand, I had so much deficit for the— from the first major strokes I had, it's very hard unless it's super obvious. Like then I couldn't tell. So was I worse or, you know, can we talk about that?

Shawn Buckley · 1:03:35

Because today, I mean, you've gone from running 20 kilometers every other day.