Denomme: Full-Body Road-Rash Pain After Second Dose¶
Day 3 · 6:20:49 · Crystal Denomme · Shawn Buckley · Teresa Buckley · Dean Allison
- 🔥 Within 24 hours of the second shot every inch of skin felt like severe sunburn plus road rash; bones felt like they were melting.
- 😢 Pain exceeded unmedicated childbirth; she sat crying on the bed unable to dress yet was forced to work the night before vacation.
- 🏥 Skin pain lasted days then migrated to leg pain initially suspected as a clot; she could perform only minimal duties.
Immediate excruciating systemic pain beginning the day after dose two.
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Transcript¶
Crystal Denomme · 6:20:49
Um, after I got the first one, I was perfectly fine. I didn't even have a sore arm, nothing. Um, after I got the second one, within 24 hours I woke up and I just— my full skin, every piece of skin on my body was like I was getting peeled. It was like, like if you fall off your bike and you get really bad road rash, it felt like that head to toe. And my bones, like you can feel your bones, felt like they were melting, you know. Um, and that was within 24 hours. By the 2-week mark, I had gone back to work and my right leg was hurting. So I was talking with one of my colleagues—.
Shawn Buckley · 6:21:32
Can I just slow you down because you were describing it feeling like your skin was being peeled off. And I don't understand what you mean by that. Can you try to describe that?
Crystal Denomme · 6:21:47
Worst sunburn you've ever had and add road rash to that and repeat. It was the worst pain I've ever felt. I've never felt anything like that. Like, it's even hard to describe the brutality of it. It was the worst thing I've ever felt.
Shawn Buckley · 6:22:06
And is this all over? It was full.
Crystal Denomme · 6:22:09
Yeah. I sat on the side of my bed because I had to go to work that night. I sat on the side of my bed and I cried like I didn't even know how I was going to put on clothes.
Shawn Buckley · 6:22:17
Well, so you couldn't even lay down because it was too painful?
Crystal Denomme · 6:22:20
Yeah, I couldn't do anything. So I had to get dressed and go to work. It was the day before my vacation started. So part of our policy and procedures is we weren't allowed to call in sick like the day before you're going on vacation.
Teresa Buckley · 6:22:32
So I had—.
Shawn Buckley · 6:22:33
Even if you're sick.
Crystal Denomme · 6:22:34
Yeah, so I had no choice, um, but to go into work, and I, I wasn't able to do my duties that night. I was able to do the residence checks and stuff like that, but I wasn't able to do the cooking or the cleaning or any kind of any, anything like that.
Crystal Denomme · 6:22:51
It was okay.
Shawn Buckley · 6:22:52
So you go to work and you're You're literally— I was going to say on fire, but that's not what you're describing. You're describing like a huge sunburn and like road rash at the same time. So like, you know, when you get a really bad skin scrape and over a large area, it's kind of like weeping. Is it that type of pain or—.
Crystal Denomme · 6:23:12
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 6:23:13
But over your entire body?
Crystal Denomme · 6:23:14
All of it.
Shawn Buckley · 6:23:16
And then you also described that it felt like your bones were melting. Can you try and express that to us?
Crystal Denomme · 6:23:25
It's very difficult. It's, it's, it felt as though I was on fire, but on the inside. And it wasn't muscular. It was like I could feel it in my bones. It was so very distinct feeling.
Shawn Buckley · 6:23:42
That was painful too?
Crystal Denomme · 6:23:44
Oh yeah.
Speaker J · 6:23:45
Yeah.
Shawn Buckley · 6:23:45
Okay. So you're You're feeling this pain really in your bones and you're feeling it on your skin. You described to us that you're sitting on the bed and crying, which tells us that the physical distress was so great. You crossed that weeping threshold where you have no choice but to weep.
Crystal Denomme · 6:24:04
Yeah.
Crystal Denomme · 6:24:06
And my last son, I had him with no epidural or anything like that, and I didn't cry in pain. This I did.
Shawn Buckley · 6:24:13
So it was. So how is it you managed to go to work that day?
Crystal Denomme · 6:24:18
I didn't have a choice.
Dean Allison · 6:24:21
Okay.
Shawn Buckley · 6:24:22
So, but you're not able to do a whole lot. What happens after that then?