- My name is Julia Walter and I have two children aged 9 and 11.
I'm a Covid post-injection victim and I've been fighting the pain for three years now.
I had post-vaccination pericarditis and so I was seen at emergency.
So how did it all start?
I had my first dose on 9 June 2021, then again on 19 July.
With each injection, I really felt pain in my neck and head.
Six days after the first dose, I went to A&E because I was having chest pains.
After that injection, everything was still normal, in fact all my tests were normal.
Then came the second dose on 19 July 2021.
And that's when I realised that I wasn't feeling well at all, that I was having major, major pains in my chest.
So I went to see my doctor, who sent me to emergency for a blood test.
And that's when they realised that my de-dimer level was almost 1700.
I was afraid I was going to have a pulmonary embolism, so I went to emergency.
I had a whole series of tests and it turned out to be acute pericarditis, i.e. water around the heart.
And so, after that, there was a series of trips back and forth, I don't know where, they've lost count
to be reassured, to be treated with different medicines.
The year 2022 was also very complicated.
In fact, following this injection, I developed ankylosing spondylitis.
So it's an inflammation of the joints in the back.
So, in fact, I have very, very bad pain in my lower back, in the sacroiliac area.
I can't tell the difference between pericarditis pain and chest pain
which come from spondylitis.
So it's true that I suffer all the time, I'm tired all the time.
It took me a lot of courage to come to the Virezon event today.
And I'm glad that we can finally talk a little about the victims and that we're being given a voice,
because we're very censored.
I'm in the process of doing a...
I find it hard to find my words at times.
- An action?
- Legal action.
We've been served with a writ of summons against Pfizer, at the Paris court.
I had a medical assessment last year, in April, in Paris.
So you can see that things are being played down.
In any case, I hope to win my case,
to be recognised as a victim of these injections,
because we didn't ask for anything. We didn't ask to be sick,
we didn't ask to be in this state.
I can't work any more.
I had double pericarditis last year, in February, following a bout of flu.
So, in fact, every time I get the flu, I risk getting pericarditis.
So it's very complicated.
And I'm recovering.
The inflammations I have on a daily basis, the pain in my wrists, fingers, back and neck.
So, sometimes there are migraines, but it's just awful.
And it's true that, as a result, there's a lot, a lot of suffering.
And it's complicated to live with every day.
I've been scared to death on I don't know how many occasions,
for fear that the pain in my heart was so intense that I said to myself, this is it, this is my last second.
I went through some very, very complicated phases of being scared to death,
knowing that I have two children, a husband and a family who are counting on me.
So it's not easy.
So that's what I wanted to say today, to explain a little bit about what happened to me.
- Do you have any help, material or human? How do you manage?
First of all, does the expert's report attest to the fact that there is a link between the vaccine and your condition?
Does that entitle you to anything?
- No, at the moment I'm not entitled to anything.
However, my condition has worsened.
So, I'm going to send a request to the MDPH, because, clearly, it's not working any more.
I'm on crutches all the time.
Otherwise, I almost always lie down because I'm so tired.
On the other hand, when it comes to medical expertise, the problem is that the experts...
So I don't really know if I'm allowed to talk about it either.
It's complicated.
But all I know is that the lawyer has sent letters to the EMA, to the Agence Médicale du Médicament,
because the dates...
So they're saying that...
All I know is that there's a story about a date when...
When was it revealed to the public?
And when did they already know?
In fact, they already knew.
And that's information that can be verified.
In May, April-May 2021, they already knew that the side-effects of vaccination included myocarditis,
were myocarditis and pericarditis.
And in fact, in the medical report, they give the date of 19 July, the day of my second vaccination.
So it's true that...
They knew it very well.
I'll even mention Christine Cotton's book, in which she gives a very good explanation of clinical trials, how they work and all that.
So I really urge you to read her book and buy it.
And I'm glad that so many people are talking about all this and denouncing it,
because we're still not being heard.
We're censored from all sides.
And in fact, we have to listen to people's suffering, because we are thousands and thousands of victims.
So it's not possible. We can't go on like this.
And with regard to my state of health, right now, as I said, an application to the MDPH is going to be sent,
because I've only been entitled to the RQTH, so it's recognition as a disabled worker,
but I can't work any more.
Now I know that when I go home tomorrow, because I'm from Strasbourg, I've travelled 7.5 hours
to come here and meet the other victims, because it's true that it's at events like this
that we can meet and talk to each other.
I'm going to pay for my trip this weekend. That's for sure.
- You're not recognised as disabled yet?
- No, I'm just recognised as a disabled worker and for professional retraining.
Now I'm really going to apply for the whole thing, in fact.
- You can't work like that?
- Well, no. No, I can't.
- What did you do before that?
- I used to be a childminder. I looked after children, so that's why I worked for a long time.
In fact, since July 2021, I've been working... I was back on sick leave in July.
Then I had August off. I returned to work in September 2021
and I worked and worked and worked and worked until I got the flu in February 2023.
In fact, it finished me off so badly that I ended up in hospital twice in the space of three months.
So there you go. And now I'm waiting for a biotherapy for my spondyloarthritis
because, well, I've tried a lot of things.
And it's true that I really encourage people who are ill to take vitamin D and zinc supplements
because it helps. It's not a cure, of course.
But it does help your immune system enormously, because I was sick all the time.
One gastro, one flu, one sore throat, one cold after another.
In short, I was sick all the time. It was just impossible.
My body's immunity was so, so low that I caught everything that was going on.
And that just wasn't possible.
So now we're monitored by a doctor who specialises in long Covid,
who gives us instructions.
After that, you either do it or you don't. It's up to you. It's up to each individual.
But for me, it's already really helped me not to fall ill, or at least not as much.
And to get through the winter without a hitch, because in those two winters, I had two Covids in less than...
just over a year apart. So that didn't help either.
But basically, I didn't have any particular health problems.
And now I can't work any more.
I'm a mum who has two children aged 9 and 11 who need their mum.
And sometimes I tell them, I'm sorry, girls, I can't do it.
I have to stay in bed.
My neighbour gives me a hand so that I can pick up my children from school.
I've got the people around me who are there every day to help me,
because sometimes I can't even manage a meal.
Making meals is complicated. My husband helps me a lot.
And he's the only one who earns enough to pay the bills every month.
It's very complicated when you have credit and bills, like everyone else.
And that's it.
- No compensation as...
- For the moment, nothing at all.
Nothing at all.
And it was all out of my own pocket until I got ALD for spondyloarthritis,
because obviously there wasn't much for pericarditis.
So in my misfortune, I'd like to say that this spondyloarthritis is a good thing,
because I have ALD and that means I'm covered for medical expenses.
But everything else is out of my own pocket.
I pay the lawyer, there and back,
because my legal insurance covers the lawyer's fees.
So I opened a fund in my name, on Cotisup,
so that I could at least use the money to pay the lawyer's fees.
Because you have to realise that it's between 400 and 500 euros per trip.
There have already been 3, so you do the math, it goes quickly.
Plus treatment costs, because we had to buy things.
And then there's the crutch.
So it's not easy, but we're not giving up.
And we'll go all the way. We're determined.