Before-and-After Photos: Coma, Football-Sized Cyst, Multi-Organ Failure¶
Day 4 · 1:53:46 · Shannon Holmes · Glen Motz · Dean Allison
- 📸 A healthy lunchtime selfie is contrasted with ICU photos showing massive swelling, tubes everywhere, and a 32-cm cyst that had ruptured and turned him septic.
- 🏥 He was on dialysis, banks of IV channels, chest and arm tubes, foot wires and a scalp sensor; family was told to make funeral arrangements.
- ⚖️ A later photo with a young relative shows him at 152 lb after peaking over 300 lb, with raccoon eyes and hair loss while still machine-dependent.
Graphic photographic evidence of the near-fatal collapse after vaccination.
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Transcript¶
Shannon Holmes · 1:53:46
Oh, they're very good.
Glen Motz · 1:53:47
Before you describe things. So David, can we have the first photo? And so tell us about this photo. You're healthy in this photo.
Shannon Holmes · 1:53:55
I was at lunch and I actually just got my hair cut the day before and somebody wanted to see it, so I just happened to have that photo on my phone, so I shared it with Right.
Glen Motz · 1:54:04
Yeah. So this is a selfie before you're vaccinated and you're healthy. And for a little bit of a contrast, let's go to the next photo.
Shannon Holmes · 1:54:17
Yeah, I was— I must have been in the middle of my coma at that point, as you can tell. And if you look carefully at my stomach, that wasn't from burgers and whatnot. There was a football-sized cyst in my stomach at that point that was exploding and had me septic. If you notice how swollen my arms, my hands, and, and my neck is there, it was leaking and causing me multi-organ failure. So it was at this point that they— I told my family to make my funeral arrangements. And these were the photos, I think I stole them from my dad's phone, of me, you know, I guess your family members take pictures of you so they can show everybody what happened on the way out, right? And, uh, so I decided to share them with you guys today.
Glen Motz · 1:55:05
Yeah, I have to tell you that, um, I'd look— I've looked at this photo on several occasions, and every time I see this photo, I get angry.
Shannon Holmes · 1:55:17
I do too, so I'm trying not to look at it.
Glen Motz · 1:55:19
Yeah, and I, I'm not trying to be rude, but I didn't know you could put that many tubes down somebody's throat.
Shannon Holmes · 1:55:26
If there's another picture I sent you, it's more back more, and it has more of the machines. As my father said, I was hooked up to everything in the hospital. Dialysis, um, I think you can actually see the dialysis machine in the back. I had banks of those IV machines with— they call them channels— and all the little bags and whatnot. I had You know, they actually installed tubes coming out of places you wouldn't normally see tubes, like in my chest. I had a tube. I had tubes coming out of my arm. I had wires in my feet. I have a small quarter-sized circle on the back of my head that I guess they had to put some sensor in. So I just tell everybody I was in the Matrix for a while. So, you know, they kind of get a good laugh out of that one, right?
Glen Motz · 1:56:10
So I hope this photo is still on, on the screen for the online audience. So just to recap again, several things are going on. So first of all, you're in a coma. You're not aware when this photo is taken. Your stomach is extended because, as you described it, there's like a football-sized cyst, but it's burst in your septum.
Shannon Holmes · 1:56:33
It was leaking. Yes, it was 32 centimeters according to the doctor.
Glen Motz · 1:56:37
Right. And so that's part of the reason why you're so bloated. Like when we look at your neck, like we looked at that picture before, it's like your neck today. It like you— this is like a triple, triple chin. You've got so much water and your arms are so large.
Shannon Holmes · 1:56:55
Yeah.
Glen Motz · 1:56:56
So can we go to the next photo?
Shannon Holmes · 1:57:00
So this photo was taken a month or two later, and, um, the young man in the photo with me, um, I've grown up with him, he's like a nephew to and he was brought into the hospital. So I unhooked all my machines and told them, you know, I thought I'd never see him again. And when they brought him into the ER, he collapsed playing soccer. I'm not— I can't remember what happened to him. I insisted on going down to see him, and when I came in the room, he didn't even know it was me. As you can see, it was a big difference in the picture from 2 months before.
Glen Motz · 1:57:30
Yeah, I picked this picture to show how much weight you had lost.
Shannon Holmes · 1:57:34
Yep, I was, uh, I went— I think in the last photo was over 300 pounds. I normally walk around about 240, and in that picture I was 152 or 153 pounds.
Glen Motz · 1:57:46
So yeah, no, it's a, it's a visible difference.
Dean Allison · 1:57:48
Yep.
Shannon Holmes · 1:57:49
And I noticed I had the raccoon eyes like we were talking about before, um, hair loss. Um, unfortunately I'm not hooked up to all the machines there, so I was only allowed to be in the ER for a few minutes before they wheeled me back up to the other room and hooked me back up again.
Glen Motz · 1:58:04
Right. Well, and that in itself is part of the story. So when this picture is taken, your treatment protocol is, is so strict that you basically, you're confined to bed because you've got all these tubes in you.
Shannon Holmes · 1:58:17
Right.
Glen Motz · 1:58:18
And different machines running.
Shannon Holmes · 1:58:20
Right.
Glen Motz · 1:58:22
Okay. Well, let's talk about your experience then.