Dianne Spaulding: Bruising, Petechiae, Neuropathy and Vision Loss¶
Day 4 · 6:22:31 · Dianne Spaulding · Myriam Bohémier
- 🟣 Widespread unexpected bruising, petechiae, splinter hemorrhages and spontaneous skin peeling followed.
- ⚡ Pins-and-needles rose to elbows and knees; chest felt like a vibrating phone; hand/leg/head tremors began.
- 👁️ Blurry vision erased faces on walks; light and noise sensitivity forced total darkness.
Multi-system bleeding, neuropathic and sensory cascade after the single AstraZeneca dose.
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Transcript¶
Dianne Spaulding · 6:22:31
Yeah, so legs. Oh yeah, so it was about a week after that I started getting bruising And it was— the bruising was like all over my body in areas you don't expect to get bruising. And it was just everywhere. I started getting bleeding dots under my skin called petechiae, more bleeding spots. I started getting pins and needles in my hands and in my feet. And they were— that feeling of pins and needles was going up my arms and up my legs. I didn't know what the heck was going on. I just kept—.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:23:09
Can I just slow you down on that? So let's see on your arms, like, how far is this going up?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:23:16
The pins and needles? Yeah. It was going up to about my elbow and then up to my knees.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:23:21
And when you say pins and needles, like, most of us have laid on an arm or something.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:23:27
Exactly. You fall asleep on your arm and you wake up and you're taking it out. It's exactly like that.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:23:33
Okay. Which is, which is really uncomfortable. It's, it's very uncomfortable.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:23:38
And I just kept rubbing my arms and my legs and I'd say to my husband, why don't we go out for a walk and maybe, you know, but yeah, no, it continued. Um, yeah. So after that, my, my vision actually started getting blurry when we were going out for walks. I couldn't see people's faces. They were completely I couldn't see. My vision was very, very blurry. So let me just slow you there down again.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:24:06
So you're out for a walk and like people are walking by and, and we, you know, intuitively look at their faces. We, I think we subconsciously do an assessment of them. It's just, it's a blurry, blurry. So would you be able to recognize people you knew walking by?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:24:22
No, no. And I kept saying to my husband, Is it just me, or do you see people's faces? I can't see people's faces, you know.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:24:32
It was very strange. I understand that you were also, um, starting to get vibrations in your chest. Yeah, yeah.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:24:41
So then that started. It felt like, it felt like a cell phone going off in my chest. Um, I started getting tremors in my right hand and in my legs.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:24:59
Before we go there, I just, I want to show some pictures about your skin. Oh yes. Okay. Before we leave. David, can you pull up? Yeah. So, so can you walk us through these?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:25:09
Maybe, you know, from the first picture is a bleed. That's the bleed that was under, under my, on my lower arm when I went to when I went to emerge the first time. The second picture, I had all these splinter hemorrhages under my nails. Um, that was all the bruising, and that was my arm. You can see the, the reaction on my arm, and then just more bruising and bleeding.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:25:35
Okay, David, you want to go to the next one? Tell us about this.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:25:41
Sorry about that. Um, yeah, my skin was peeling. Just peel. It would just peel. The skin would just peel off.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:25:50
So you're not picking it up?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:25:52
No, no, it would just peel.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:25:54
Yeah, it would just— my skin would just peel off. Okay.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:25:57
And the next photograph?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:26:00
Yeah, um, I don't know what that was. It was on the back of my legs.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:26:05
Um, it was actually purple, so Um, yeah, so it was more, it was more darker than the photograph is showing.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:26:17
Yeah, I would say it looked really purple actually. It was very purple.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:26:23
Okay, so, um, I just wanted us to see those before we moved on to the tremors. So do you want to tell us about the tremors? Yeah, okay.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:26:35
So anyways, yeah, so I had, I, oh yeah, and I have light and noise sensitivity. It got started, and I just, I had to like close the blinds. I couldn't handle any light at all. Any bit of noise drove me crazy. I had to be in complete darkness and no sound at all. So, I had that. And then, and then, yeah, so the tremors started in my right hand and in my, my lower legs and in my head. And that was very alarming to me because I was like, what the heck is going on? Like, do I have Parkinson's now? So it was very scary.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:16
So again, let's just slow this down.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:18
So, um, your hands, like my one hand, the one that the injection went in, it would just shake.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:27
Yeah, it would.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:28
Yeah, it would just, it was, yeah.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:30
And you were not able to shaking?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:34
Um, not really.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:35
I mean, how, how long?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:38
Like, I know if you held your hand in your other hand, you know, but you could still feel it on the inside.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:44
And how long would this last for?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:48
Just a few minutes. Just a few minutes. My head would bob.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:27:53
So your head, when it would shake, my head would bob.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:27:56
Like, yeah, it would be bobbing.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:28:00
And how long would that last when it started?
Dianne Spaulding · 6:28:02
I don't, I don't, I don't actually remember. I, you know, I, um, a few minutes, a few minutes at a time, probably.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:28:11
Yeah. What do you think is going on at this point, and how are you reacting? Like, just how you're—.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:28:16
Oh, I was terrified. I was, I mean, the extreme fatigue started setting in, and I actually spent 3 months in bed. I could not get out of bed. I, I'd fall asleep and I'd wake up in the morning and I'd say to my husband, I didn't sleep. Like, I didn't sleep. And, and, um, I had this, I had this, um, I had this rumble feeling when I was sitting down the one day on the couch. Um, it felt like an earthquake in my head. Like, it literally felt like an earthquake in my head. And right after that, I had a drugged feeling, like somebody had drugged me. And that has never— that has never gone away, the drug feeling. I've had it ever since. I— nothing is clear in my head. It's just like something stuffed inside my head, and I'm drugged.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:29:13
And so you even have that feeling now? I do. So, this is a permanent thing where you kind of feel like there's cotton or something stuck in your head and you're drugged. Yeah. I'm just, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah.
Dianne Spaulding · 6:29:30
So, I ended up spending the summer, I guess, most of the summer I spent in bed. But during this time, I decided, because I went back, actually, I went back to the hospital when the tremors started.