Heart-Injured Health Worker Describes Medical System Abandonment

This one is from a heart-injured health worker, but his final comment sums up very well the situtaion we see over and over. People step up, take a very hard one for the team and then get dumped on the scrap heap as an embarrassing inconvenience.

We did our part by getting vaccinated as we were asked to, ordered to might be more accurate, but when it went wrong nobody was there to catch us when we fell. My experience of the ED and public hospital was judgement, ignorance and blindsighted politics, not to mention misinformation. These professionals are not engaging in research and this is a new phenomena, they need to recognise us not condemn us.

There is a tremendous grief you suffer as a 28 year old man, losing the ability to exercise, losing the trust in your government, your medical system, your family, friends, colleagues, hiding your pain as you are labelled an anxiety-fuelled hypochondriac with a tin foil hat that reads anti-vax. Who will recognise and fund my mental rehabilitation, let alone my medical, it will have to be me. Will I ever get better? If I don’t then I can truly say that this medication has ruined my life, and I will have to try so hard to find new meaning for I am physically and mentally weakened by it. Will our stories be heard?