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Polycranial Nerve Damage, Vision Loss and One-Activity Days

Day 2 · 3:04:45 · Shawn Buckley · Kelly Shorkey · Jasmeet Grewal

  • ⚡ Right-sided limb weakness, collapsed foot, trigeminal neuralgia and damage to cranial nerves 5, 7, 9 and 10 leave her living near incontinence.
  • 👁️ Convergence insufficiency means her eyes no longer work together, so she will never again administer medication.
  • 🛏️ She can manage only one daily task—shower or appointment—and testifying will wipe her out for days.

Ongoing multi-nerve deficits force extreme energy rationing and end her nursing career.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 3:04:45

Can you share with us about that?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:04:47

Yeah. And so with my condition, I'm, you Uniquely, everything only happened on the right side of my body. This has nothing to do with the left. So I have limb weakness on the right side. So, you know, going upstairs, all of a sudden my leg just doesn't want to work anymore. I notice going swimming, I— my arm will just stop working. There's no rhyme or reason for it. It just will do that. I can't, you know, And then over time, I've actually gotten significantly worse. My foot's collapsed. Where it used to become weak, I am permanently weaker on the right-hand side.

Shawn Buckley · 3:05:32

Yeah. You also have trigeminal neuralgia, which I understand is one of the most painful conditions that we know about.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:05:39

Yes.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:05:40

And so I have polycranial nerve damage. So Trigeminal is nerve 5, which is also included. I have 5, 7, 9, and 10 and probably more. We're not quite sure, but 5 can be extremely, extremely painful. At the moment, it ebbs and flows, but it can affect the jaw, the teeth, and pain is very bad pain.

Shawn Buckley · 3:06:07

How are you doing today?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:06:08

Today?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:06:10

With the trigeminal. So the pain is okay. It's just that it's a chronic, all the time condition that I have to deal with. And as far as today goes, I never have a good day. I'm always, you know, like, it's hard to explain. I've never been the same person. I think the best way I can describe it is, you know, I am anywhere from 75% to 30% of the person I used to be. Percentage-wise, there's days where I have flares, so things come and go. I might get a little bit better and then I get excited and I think, oh, there's a possibility if this trajectory keeps going, I will have an opportunity to return to work, to return to my life. And, and then I get these flares and I never recover to the point where I was before. And these occur quite regularly, like 3 times a year where I think I'm going to possibly get better and then I don't.

Shawn Buckley · 3:07:14

Right. But you're in pain right now.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:18

I am not in pain right now.

Jasmeet Grewal · 3:07:20

Okay.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:21

Yeah. Yeah.

Shawn Buckley · 3:07:24

Now, number 10 affects heart rate, bowels, urinary function. And so you live on the edge of incontinence.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:35

Yeah.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:37

And with my bowels too, they don't communicate with me anymore. I have to, you know, and with my nursing background, I know exactly what I need to do to try to make sure things are functioning properly. But yeah, that's definitely affected.

Shawn Buckley · 3:07:52

And then you talked about your right arm. Can you tell us about your vision?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:57

Yeah.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:07:58

So my vision, I noticed it was affected from the beginning. I noticed right away I was at the gym, actually had gone to go swimming, and I noticed that, hey, I misread a number. And I like this. And it wasn't a dyslexia kind of number. It was a real thing. My brain picked up something and believed what I saw. And then it's like all of a sudden it's like, oh, this is not— this is incorrect. And I found the different ways. So with my vision, we have finally figured out after four years that it's called convergence insufficiency. My eyes do not work together anymore. And for whatever has happened inside my, my head, I don't read things properly. I, I misunderstand things. I would be very harmful. I will never choose to administer medication again because I might think that this is 10mg when it should be just 1mg.

Shawn Buckley · 3:08:54

When you and I were interviewing, I don't even remember when that was, but probably a couple of weeks ago now. And you said to me that testifying here is going to wipe you out. Can you share with us about that and what's going on there?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:09:10

So I basically, since since my injury, I guess the best way I can put it is I can do one thing a day. I have to choose though. Like, it's like, do I want to shower or do I want to get to this appointment? Do I want to go grocery shopping or do I want to make it out to see a friend? I have to pick and choose what those things are. You know, the more I do, I find then I need to, I just need to rest. I just, it's just not a possibility. I'm, I'm non-functioning. I end up, I need to stay home. I need to stay in a controlled, safe environment.

Shawn Buckley · 3:09:51

So you actually have to plan what you do and what you don't do, including showering. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kelly Shorkey · 3:09:58

I had one doctor ask, what's your burden of the day?

Speaker I · 3:10:01

What's your every day?

Kelly Shorkey · 3:10:02

And every day I wake up and I don't know what to expect.

Shawn Buckley · 3:10:08

Expect. So, and like I say, you're— yours is an interesting case because it seems that out of everyone I've interviewed, more people agree this is— like, you literally gave me a letter from the Medical Health Officer of British Columbia saying this is vaccine injury. That's correct. WorkSafe BC said this is vaccine injury. CCP, Canadian Pension Plan, says this is vaccine injury. SunLife, this says vaccine injury.