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Eva Caven Sworn: 20/20 to Blind Eye After Pfizer

Day 2 · 7:08:26 · Dean Allison · James Freeland · Eva Caven · Marylou Lavalle

  • 📖 Eva Caven, 68, 42-year RN, is sworn; husband Peter supports her as she recounts a March 26, 2021 Pfizer dose.
  • 👁️ A March 31 checkup was 20/20; on April 4 the eye reddened, filled with blood, and showed baffling “snow globe” findings.
  • 🔁 Prednisone cycles, vitrectomy, retinal hole, and corneal damage left her with only shadows (20/400) and early retirement.

Caven’s acute post-vaccine eye crisis and cascade of surgeries ending in functional blindness.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 7:08:26

So our next witness is, uh, Eva Kavan. Did I say that right?

James Freeland · 7:08:33

Kevin.

Dean Allison · 7:08:33

Okay, well, thank you. No names are important. Um, Eva, will you take the Bible in your right hand?

James Freeland · 7:08:41

Yeah.

Dean Allison · 7:08:41

Eva, Kevin, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? It's counterintuitive. Bread is on, so thank you. And you can just leave that on. Um, I just want to introduce you to the inquiry. So you are 68 years of age. Um, your husband Peter is here with you supporting you, and two of you have a 35-year-old daughter. You were a registered nurse for 42 years.

Eva Caven · 7:09:15

I was.

Dean Allison · 7:09:16

Hard to believe, right? Uh, working full-time, you were in good health, no underlying conditions. Um, we're going to be talking about eyes at age 35. You did have cataracts and have the standard lens replacement. Tell us what happened. You got an injection, a Pfizer injection on March 26th, 2021.

Marylou Lavalle · 7:09:44

Yeah, I got the injection.

Eva Caven · 7:09:48

I was working in the community as an RN, seeing people a case manager seeing, uh, people in a geriatric program.

Dean Allison · 7:09:58

And our whole team—.

Eva Caven · 7:09:59

We had a team of 5— and we were encouraged to get it because we're working with the geriatric population and they were at risk. So my turn was coming up, and I went on March the 26th, like you said, got my injection, and I didn't feel anything at the time. And in between, I had seen my regular eye doctor, which I would go for appointments, like, right after that.

Eva Caven · 7:10:29

I was—.

Eva Caven · 7:10:29

I saw him on March 31st. Everything was okay. I had 20/20 vision.

Dean Allison · 7:10:34

And I'm just going to slow you down. That was just a regular— Yeah, like a checkup.

Eva Caven · 7:10:40

Yeah.

Speaker M · 7:10:41

Yeah.

Dean Allison · 7:10:41

So you weren't going there because you were having a problem?

Eva Caven · 7:10:44

No.

Dean Allison · 7:10:45

Okay. And so you go there and everything is okay.

Eva Caven · 7:10:49

And then four days later, April 4th—.

Eva Caven · 7:10:55

You remember all these dates—.

Eva Caven · 7:10:57

I woke up in the morning and my, my eye was feeling a little bit strange, kind of hurting a little bit and looked a little red. But I went into work anyway, 12-hour shift. So I went there. And then as the day was progressing, it started to get redder and redder. And, um, it was really bothering me, you know.

Eva Caven · 7:11:18

I took some Tylenol.

Eva Caven · 7:11:19

It was like very kind of getting really more painful. I went home and then it started to get worse, and then my eyes started to get blurry, and then my eye kind of just filled up with blood, and it was looking very, very bad. My husband could confirm that.

Eva Caven · 7:11:37

It was very scary.

Eva Caven · 7:11:39

So, um, we got in to see the doctor that I had seen, and he said, what are you doing here? He just, he just couldn't believe my eye was looking like that. And, um, looked in my eye and he saw a very strange presentation in my eye, these big snow globes that, you know, a doctor with probably over 30 years experience or so, uh, never—.

Eva Caven · 7:12:05

He said What is that?

Eva Caven · 7:12:07

You know, he didn't even know what that was.

Eva Caven · 7:12:09

And you think if you see a lot of eyes, you would see certain things.

Dean Allison · 7:12:13

So it was very strange.

Eva Caven · 7:12:14

But, um, anyway, he treated me right away with the prednisone drops, lots of drops, you know, every 2 hours, try to tame it, the inflammation. It was burning, it was red, but it did calm it down. So we were doing that, and over That was 2021.

Dean Allison · 7:12:37

Now, can I just slow you down? Yeah. Are you able to see through that eye at this time? There's more to the story.

Eva Caven · 7:12:44

At the time, after he treated me with the prednisone over the months, I could see with my eye. It started to get better. But then I think With the shot— oh yeah, let me just back up. Also, he wrote a letter for me to continue working, saying that I should not get the second shot.

Eva Caven · 7:13:12

So, I was able to work after that.

Eva Caven · 7:13:14

So, I went back to work, and it was like a continuous cycle of the inflammation getting better, and then my eye pressure increasing, and then having to go down on the inflammation drops, which is the prednisone. So it was like a continuous cycle. And I did work up until, um, March 2022.

Eva Caven · 7:13:39

I just—.

Eva Caven · 7:13:39

It was too much after a while because, you know, you have to read reports and make reports to send to doctors, and it was getting very hard.

Speaker J · 7:13:48

So I retired early at the age of 64.

Eva Caven · 7:13:52

And that whole year was the same thing, the cycle of inflammation, burning, and then it would get better. Then you would decrease the drops and then it would get worse again. And then I ended up getting an infection in that eye being like, I think, immune compromised or so. Then they had to do a vitrectomy in 2022, which is doing cleaning out the vitreous in your eye and a lot of antibiotics.

Eva Caven · 7:14:22

And then what happened was my—.

Eva Caven · 7:14:26

I got a retina hole in my eye because of all the operations and in my eye. And so I had to get treated in 2023 for the operations and the hole closed. I had to have my head down for 5 days so that it would close. So after that, in 2023, I, you know, it was still the on and off prednisone drops and getting better. And then my cornea was actually scratched, I believe, from all the surgeries. So now I don't see at all. I only see shadows in front of my eye, like my, a hand going by. So I, I am blind in that eye at 20—.

Eva Caven · 7:15:13

2400.

Eva Caven · 7:15:16

And, um, so that's what's happened.