Lisa Watson: Walker for Life, Exemption Refused¶
Day 4 · 6:54:33 · Lisa Watson · Myriam Bohémier · Dean Allison
- 🚶 She lives with a walker, drop foot and ongoing midsection banding and spasms years later.
- 📋 Chief Medical Officer Heather Morrison refused exemption and pushed AstraZeneca despite her AFib.
- 💔 Granddaughters will never know pre-vaccine Lisa; hobby-farm dreams and family roles collapsed.
Permanent disability, refused exemption, and irreversible family and lifestyle loss.
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Transcript¶
Lisa Watson · 6:54:33
Well, if you've seen me walk around the halls, I do use a walker. I came home in a wheelchair, but I quickly got rid of that and used the walker around the house.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:54:58
So you can't walk without a walker? No.
Lisa Watson · 6:55:02
If I hang on to walls or if I hang on to, you know, So, I tried to use a cane, but it's just too unstable for me. Because I also have now dropped foot. That was when these spasms were happening. They would straighten my foot out, and I lost all movement in my left foot.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:55:27
Okay. I think we're ready for that video now. Gracias. Thank you. After a couple weeks of me in physio, So this, this is a video of you basically learning to walk with it.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:56:27
Yeah. With the walker.
Lisa Watson · 6:56:28
Like I said, that was about 2 weeks after. I, um, I had a brace on to hold my, my foot up. Um, and the one I got after, oh, well, even that one I have, um, I broke my ankle years ago, so I have pins and plates, so it's very uncomfortable to wear. That, it hurts because I have all feeling in that side of my body.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:57:01
So, right. And so, I mean, this is, this is really you becoming completely disabled and needing to be hospitalized. Yes. And, um, the chief medical officer, Dr. Heather Dr. Morrison, uh, wanted you to get a second shot? Absolutely.
Lisa Watson · 6:57:23
My doctor wanted—.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:57:26
Um, my family doctor was amazing, and, um, he sent off an exemption, a request for an exception, because I had to apply to the chief medical office.
Lisa Watson · 6:57:40
Yes. And she refused that, saying that, um, I forget the wording right now, but basically she doesn't have to get the Pfizer vaccine, but we strongly recommend her have— and for him to discuss with me the benefits of getting the AstraZeneca one. And the funny thing was But that was one for blood clots that they were pulling. And I have AFib. And so it certainly didn't make sense.
Myriam Bohémier · 6:58:23
Right. Because it's contraindicated. Yes. So what has been the most difficult part of this?
Lisa Watson · 6:58:37
Not being able to be who I, I was, not looking at myself and not seeing me, um, as far as, um, I liked to entertain and, you know, I always was the one that would cook the big dinners and have the, um, but even more than that, my, uh, I have 5 granddaughters that are all fairly young, and not one of them will remember who I was before this vaccine. Um, they do not know who I am or who I was, and, uh, I try not to be that, um, person that lets it defy who I am. I will not allow this to defy who I am, but sometimes it's hard.
Lisa Watson · 6:59:40
Thank God I have a husband that's as supportive as he is, and the kids have been Amazing. That it's— it's— I guess I'm, I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed in— we wanted this little hobby farm, and, uh, the day, couple days before I had bought my first shipment of little baby chickens came in, and I didn't get to raise them, you know. I, I didn't get to go collect the barn or the, the eggs or the— and everything else just died with it. Uh, I guess it just— it didn't break my spirit, so my spirit will not be broken, but it took— it did take something from me, took some from my husband.
Lisa Watson · 7:00:46
It took, you know, our life is not how we envisioned. He had to stop his work doing what he did to be home closer. My daughter had to move back and, uh, she lived in Alberta, so it, you know, it changed all of our lives drastically. And, uh, it's disappointing.
Dean Allison · 7:01:18
Lisa, thank you so much. That, that was going to be my question in terms— I know you've got lots of support at home. I do. And I, you know, was going to ask you how, how that, you know, made you feel about the future, and you just sort of touched on it. You just were explaining that some of the things you'd hoped and aspired for has changed as a result of that. You want to add anything else to that?
Lisa Watson · 7:01:41
I don't think so. I, I do want to thank you, um, for validating us, allowing us here. So I, I didn't know there was so many at, you know, when this first happened. I knew there was the odd one, and you just feel that you're a one-off took one for the team. That's what I would tell the people. And, uh, yeah, it was— it's a lot. And this has been very helpful. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa.
Speaker G · 7:02:18
Thank you very much.