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Q&A: Vaccine-Injury Claim, CPP Cutoff, and Untested Crystals

Day 2 · 7:46:52 · Shawn Buckley · Jannine Duffy · Jennifer Britain · Charles Hoffe · Dean Allison

  • 📁 Jannine filed a vaccine-injury claim in August 2022; by July it still sat with 111 pages and no timeline.
  • 🚌 Disability and free medical transport ended at 65; iloprost infusions helped circulation but ride support vanished.
  • 🔬 No lab ever tested the nail crystals; a doctor who saw residue under a toenail said she had never seen it before.

Counsel questions on compensation delays, age cutoffs, and untested crystal material.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 7:46:52

You had mentioned long-term disability and CPP. Have you filed and got any of that, any of those programs?

Jannine Duffy · 7:47:00

Um, I have filed for the vaccine injury, and I did that in August of 2022. Um, I talked to someone the beginning of July because I called them, um, I don't, I don't remember why But they told me that no, my folder is still sitting there and it has 111 pages sitting there and that's where it's at.

Shawn Buckley · 7:47:27

So they never gave you a timeline how long?

Jannine Duffy · 7:47:30

I asked him and he said no, we have no idea, we're still going through paperwork. But my file is sitting there with 1,100 or 1,100 pages.

Jennifer Britain · 7:47:38

111.

Jannine Duffy · 7:47:39

Yeah, 111.

Charles Hoffe · 7:47:40

Yeah.

Jannine Duffy · 7:47:41

Um, and that's all I heard from them. I was on disability for a while, and I'm on CPP, but when I went to see if I could get on disability CPP, I, I don't know how to do that stuff, um, and it said something like you have to be under 65. So once I turned 65, it's like, okay, I got nothing now. When I was on disability, I was able to get transportation for free, so I could get to hospital appointments without having to call my daughter. Now I got nothing. So I don't know. And yeah, there was 8 months where I had to go through— I don't remember the name.

Jennifer Britain · 7:48:25

It's called iloprost infusions, was one of the only treatments that she's had over the last few years that gave her some resolve with the circulation issues. They actually started her on Viagra. And that was helpful, but again, is very expensive. And she didn't have insurance at the time. So we were fortunate to have a rheumatologist who booked her for iloprost infusions. It took about 6 months for them to approve this. And she went for 8 months worth of treatments for that. And they were 3-day-in-a-row treatments. And, you know, I worked full-time and I had to go to work as well. So we able to find some sort of ride program that was available to her, but as soon as she turned 65, for some reason that got cut off.

Dean Allison · 7:49:10

We'll just—.

Shawn Buckley · 7:49:12

To your local MP for helping their offices deal with this.

Jannine Duffy · 7:49:18

There was, um, a community worker that came and she said, I've helped you fill out all the paperwork and I'm going to get a hold of people and there's community things that will get in touch with you. And I heard from nothing. And I, I'm not very good at reaching out because I don't know what to do.

Shawn Buckley · 7:49:33

I got one last question, it's a short one. The crystals that come out through the fingers and toes, did they ever test that to see what it was? Anybody ever?

Jannine Duffy · 7:49:44

No. And I, I did have a little bit saved and I, I could not find it afterwards. I could not find it, but I told the doctor about it and she actually saw a little bit that was under my toenail. And she said, oh my God, like, I've never seen that before. And that was really the— basically the end of that. Um, I also want to say that, okay, inflammation, I get that a lot, especially with the rain. And there is absolutely no medication that I can take without making me sick. So I am stone cold, no, cannot take medication. The only one that helped was hydromorphone, which is an opioid. And that one, as soon as I could get off of that, I was off of that. That was dark moments.

Shawn Buckley · 7:50:30

Thank you for telling your story. Thank you, Mr. Ross.

Charles Hoffe · 7:50:34

Mr. Hall.