āVery quickly after being vaccinated, I started to get quite ill,ā said Rowland. āI never got back to the U.S.ā He continued working for six months after his first dose, but had to take a lot of time off from work because he was in the hospital.
āIāve never worked since,ā he said. āIāve lost my job and Iām disabled as we speak.ā
Rowlandās symptoms began with a āfever like Iād never had before in my life,ā he said. āI was in bed for four days.ā The fever eventually subsided, he said, ābut I felt very virally ill for a number of weeks. I started to notice horrendous pains down my left arm and my left leg. And my wife noticed I started to have fits in bed ā¦ they were basically non-epileptic fits.ā
The symptoms appeared within a week of his first dose.
Rowland couldnāt get a face-to-face appointment with his doctor because of the pandemic, so he had to settle for a phone appointment. The doctor diagnosed him with āanxietyā and āsaid it was a panic attackā ā not unlike what happened to
other vaccine-injury victims, whose conditions also were chalked up to āanxiety.ā
Rowlandās condition continued to worsen. āI couldnāt sleep for five days because [the fits] were happening 15 or 20 times a night,ā he said. āIt got horrendous. I just couldnāt lie down.ā
Rowland took six weeks off from work. However, when he spoke to his doctor again, āHe said itās anxiety and depression and put me on antidepressant medication. So, I tried this medication, and it made me even worse.ā
Rowlandās doctor then prescribed āthree or fourā additional antidepressants, but none of them helped. Ultimately, his doctor said, āI donāt know what to do for you, Iām going to send you to a psychiatrist because I believe this is like a mental health [issue].ā
āHe didnāt think it was anything physical,ā said Rowland, āand neither of us ā¦ I didnāt think it was a vaccine, because I had vaccines all my life. I didnāt figure it was the vaccine ā¦ no one put it down to the vaccine.ā
Rowland eventually returned to work.
āI just got sicker and sickerā
Whatever sense of normalcy Rowland reattained was short-lived. After receiving the second dose of the
AstraZeneca vaccine, āThatās when all hell broke loose in my life.ā
Rowland told The Defender:
āImmediately after having the second vaccine ā¦ I passed out once at work. I passed out at home ā¦ I developed chest pain immediately after the vaccine. I developed such chest pain and dizziness, and I was sweating. The pain was horrendous. I couldnāt breathe. I thought I was having a heart attack.ā
Rowland was taken to the hospital, where he was told, āWe canāt find anything wrong with you. We think itās just a panic attack,ā and he was sent home.
Not satisfied with the diagnosis, Rowland spoke to a cardiologist at his workplace and asked for an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG). āSo, he did a 24-hour ECG ā¦ and it basically showed my heart was going into
ventricular tachycardia (VT), when I was getting all dizzy. Itās very dangerous and could cause sudden death.ā
The cardiologist instructed Rowland to show the results of this exam to the hospital in the event he was to go back.
āAnother week went by,ā said Rowland, āI was getting tremendous pain and dizziness and I had another episode where I nearly collapsed again.ā He showed paramedics the results of his ECG and was taken to the hospital.
But Rowlandās difficulties with doctors didnāt end there.
āI had a high
D-dimer, so they started to look for blood clots on my lungs and kept me in hospital, wouldnāt let me move out of the bed.ā
He added:
āThey still didnāt think it was the vaccine when they couldnāt find blood clots ā¦ they sent my ECG to a specialist heart hospital ā¦ and got them to look at the ECG. Nobody thought it was the vaccine.ā
As a result, Rowland was discharged and told he would be administered an MRI āin a couple of weeks,ā with the expectation of finding
cardiomyopathy. But the MRI didnāt find anything.
āDoctors were very, very confused about what was causing this VT,ā he said. āThey thought it was an adrenal problem and then referred me to an endocrinologist, and thatās when my horrible gaslighting and traumatic story really started. Because, again, they couldnāt find the cause of it, so they kept blaming things on anxiety.ā
Rowland described what happened next:
āAnd then ā¦ I just got sicker and sicker. I developed blurred vision, face rashes, jaundice and tinnitus in my head. I started to develop neuropathy in my hands ā¦ some of my fingers donāt straighten anymore.
āI developed horrendous pain below both my knees ā¦ I canāt feel temperature in my lower legs. My toenails have died ā¦ I have no pulse in my feet.ā
He was discharged from the hospital but returned monthly. Each time, doctors told him, āWe canāt find whatās wrong with you.ā
In June 2022, Rowland ācollapsed with three pulmonary embolismsā in his lungs ā but when he went to the hospital,
they again told him it was just anxiety.
āSo I said, ālook at my eyes. Iāve lost two stone [one stone = 6.35 kilograms] in weight ā¦ Iām not leaving this hospital until you do some more scans and tests.
This is definitely not anxiety.āā
So they scanned his lungs, and thatās when they found the three pulmonary embolisms and āa hundred tiny embolisms on my lungs.ā
Rowland ended up in the hospital for a month, where he was diagnosed with pericarditis and told he would have died if they hadnāt found the embolisms.
Since then, Rowland said, āIāve spent four more months in hospital on separate occasions. And Iāve been diagnosed now with severe thrombolytic vasculitis of my blood vessels.ā
But thatās not all thatās wrong with his health. Rowland told The Defender:
āMy diaphragm doesnāt work properly. Some of my eye muscles and my facial muscles arenāt working properly, and my leg muscles arenāt working properly ā¦ They did something called a
CPET [cardiopulmonary exercise] test and ā¦ found that my cells in my muscles arenāt getting enough oxygen and nutrients.
āIām waiting to see a vascular surgeon for the blood ā itās not getting to my legs and my muscles. Iām also waiting to see an immunologist and another hematologist because Iām on three blood-thinning medications and they donāt think itās stopping my blood clotting properly.
āThey think my blood is still clotting. They want me to have a special test where they take my blood out, spin it and take the platelets out and then look how my blood is responding to the three blood thinners Iām on, because for some reason itās not doing its job.ā
Rowland hasnāt been able to get that test because under the U.K. healthcare system, āthe government wonāt pay for it.ā
Heās been trying to get the text through private healthcare. Meanwhile, his doctors tell him they can see that heās really ill, ābut we donāt know how to make it betterā because they donāt know whatās in the vaccines. They suggested he travel to Germany to receive specialist treatment.
āYouāre the 239th person we have seen with similar symptoms from the vaccinesā
Rowland described how he finally got a diagnosis that definitively linked the vaccine to his injuries:
āAfter I collapsed with the blood clots and they tried to send me home and I said āno, Iām not going anywhere, you scammed me, thereās something wrong,ā they finally admitted it was probably the vaccine.
āI was needing a wheelchair and they just discharged me and said, āTake this morphine, weāll see you in four or five monthsā time.ā And I was like, āI canāt even walk, you know?ā And they were like, āwell, we canāt help you.āā
Rowland did his own research, locating a specialist hospital and private lung consultant, whom he visited in London, bringing with him the scans from the exams administered at his local hospital.
He said:
āI just said to him, āI feel like Iām dying, can you look at my scans and tell me, am I going to die, you know, imminently? I want you to be honest with me so I can tell my children.ā He looked at my scans and he said, āI donāt think youāre going to die imminently from your lungsā ā¦ but he said to me, āit is 100% vaccine injury.ā
āHe said āyouāre the 239th person we have seen with similar symptoms from the vaccines.ā And that was at one hospital in London ā¦ He said, āIām more worried that youāre going to die with your heart and I need you to see one of my colleagues urgently.ā
So Rowland saw a cardiologist who told him, itās ācompletely vaccine injury. You donāt get VT like you developed for no reason. Itās definitely the vaccine with everything thatās happened to you since.āā
The doctor urged him to go to London immediately for treatment. āSo they took me down to London for a month and then they diagnosed me ā¦ they realized it was in all my organs. So itās in my heart, my lungs ā¦ so they diagnosed me with multisystem inflammatory syndrome.ā
āSo, at this moment in time, Iām on steroids for the pericarditis in my heart,ā he said. āIām on two different heart medications, another one for pericarditis [and] one for
microvascular angina ā¦ and Iām on three blood thinners from my clotting, and various painkillers and things like that.ā
āItās like living in hellā
As for what his life is like today, Rowland said:
āI donāt say these words slightly, but itās like living in hell. Itās like torture, and I wouldnāt wish it on my worst enemy.ā
He said heās pretty much housebound and struggles to walk because of his breathing issues and chest pain.
Rowland added:
āBecause I have fits trying to lie down, I canāt sleep in a regular bed ā¦ my bedās adapted, so itās at 45 degrees, so itās like sitting up in a chair because the fits get triggered when I lie down.
āI donāt sleep. I just get these fits. So, every single day, I dread going to bed because the fits are so scary. And my heart sometimes misses a few beats and stops for a split second. And when I get that, it feels like Iām going to die.ā
Rowlandās waking hours are not much better. He told The Defender:
āBecause of my pain and my vulnerability, I canāt stand up for very long on some days. I struggle to make food. I can make breakfast and maybe lunch if Iām lucky, but I canāt cook myself an evening meal. When I go to the hospital, I never know whether Iām going to be able to walk from the car park to the hospital ā¦
āSome days I can walk very short distances, 50 meters, maybe 100 meters. Iām really, really breathless ā¦ the chest pain is so bad that I canāt walk any further. And it does crazy things in my heart, it gives me the heart arrhythmia.ā
Rowland also experiences blurred vision and struggles to type and write because of the neuropathy in his hands and because he canāt straighten some of his fingers.
Most days, he has to ālive within the four walls of the house,ā he said. āAnd then occasionally, when Iām on a good day, a friend might come and pick me up and take me for a drive to a nearby coffee shop and have a coffee. Thatās about the most pleasure Iām getting in my life. I canāt walk my dog anymore. I canāt take my grandson to the park to push him on the swing.ā
Rowland said he lost his wife and family because of the strain. āThey couldnāt look after me,ā he said. āIāve not had a Christmas dinner with the family in two years because Iāve been too ill.ā
As for his prognosis, Rowland said his doctors ādonāt know how much Iāll heal or whether Iām just going to slowly die, because since I got injured, Iāve just gotten worse gradually on a linear projection.ā
āI havenāt gotten any better,ā he said, āso we donāt know what the futureās going to hold.ā
āI got to a point where I was suicidalā
The gaslighting Rowland experienced from multiple doctors, the lack of definitive answers, and the questioning of his mental health, drove him to the brink of suicide.
āBecause they didnāt believe me ā¦ I felt like I was going crazy,ā he said. āAnd I got to a point where I was suicidal.ā
Rowland said many of the doctors he saw wanted him to be āon lots of pain medications: morphine, oxycontin, pregabalin.ā He said his local hospital is āquite happy to give me morphine and all these other medications and leave me like that for the rest of my life.ā
He doesnāt want to go back to taking lots of medications, he said, noting that morphine ādoesnāt work ā¦ it takes a bit of the edge off the pain, but it doesnāt get rid of it.ā
Rowland told The Defender he āwasnāt someone who watched TV or used social media.ā But taking to
social media ultimately helped provide Rowland with a new lease on life.
He said:
āI went on Twitter one evening. I donāt know what drew me to do that. This was when I was suicidal. I found a guy called Alex Mitchell in the U.K. who lost a leg [due to vaccine injury]. I started chatting to him and he was like, āit sounds like you might have a vaccine injury.ā
āHe pointed me to a support group, UK COVID Vaccine Family. I couldnāt believe it, that there was ā I think at the time in the U.K. there were 600-odd people in this group ā and I was like, āthereās all these people [with] all the same symptoms as meā ā¦ It just completely opened my eyes.ā
āFrom that moment,ā said Rowland, while āit was nice to get the support, I still realized that the doctors didnāt have a clue what they were doing. I think what it did was, it took me from a place of being suicidal [to] where I wanted to fight for my life now.ā
Rowland said he started to seek out specialists who were seeing patients with vaccine injuries and āknew it wasnāt all in their heads and knew what sort of tests to do.ā
He also āwent on Twitter and decided that I needed to speak out, because I thought, āwell, if Iām going to dieā ā and I didnāt realize how bad my story was ā I thought, āwell, I didnāt want anyone else to go through what Iām going through.āā
āI just wanted to warn people that if they do inject you and it goes wrong,ā he said, āthey tell you itās safe and effective but thereās nobody there for you to help you.ā
He said heās met some wonderful people āwhoāve reached out to me and offered me support.ā
āI just take pleasure from speaking to those people and the people who are trying to help me,ā said Rowland.
At the same time, Rowland told The Defender he is also āgoing down a legal route.ā
āI want to know ā¦ whatās keeping my blood clotting and giving me vasculitis. [Doctors] donāt seem prepared to do that. So thatās the battle Iām on ā¦ I want to prove itās negligence because then the [U.K.] government will have to pay for private treatment for me, even if itās abroad. So, itās about keeping me alive,ā he said.
He had some words of advice for other vaccine-injured individuals:
āI think the first thing they need to do is, donāt suffer in silence alone ā¦ trust your own body and your intuition. So, if people are saying that to you, donāt just accept that if your intuition says otherwise.
āTry a two-pronged approach. Find a support group and question people in that support group. Even reach out and contact me online. Thatās what Iām there for. And then also, if your doctor is gaslighting you ā¦ print off a lot of evidence. If your doctor is not helping you, you need to find another doctor, which I know is not as easy as that, but do not accept a doctor thatās telling you itās in your head.ā
Rowland encouraged vaccine injury victims to ācome out publicly if youāve got the strength to do that because thereās hundreds of thousands and probably millions of us around the world.ā
āWe were part of the worst experiment that I believe has probably ever taken place,ā said Rowland. āAnd I think itās going to be like a dam thatās going to burst by the back end of 2023 ā¦ I donāt think they can keep it covered up much longer.ā
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