Bailey's Story - Truck Driver's Pericarditis Event Hours After Jab & Vanishing Records

Описание: This episode of THE+TRIBUTE, a web series giving voice to Covid jab casualties, features Bailey, a young truck driver from Nelson, and his mother, advocate Aly Cook, discuss Bailey's harrowing journey after his Pfizer jab - instant heart pain, systemic gaslighting, a battle with ACC and "vanishing" medical records.

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Bailey, pressured by mandates and debt, reluctantly got the vaccine to keep his dream job and new life in Central Otago. He was 25. He recalls asking: ‘What's the worst that could happen?’ He was given no warnings about myocarditis or pericarditis – known risks via advisories, post-Rory Nairn's tragic death.

En route from Cromwell to Christchurch, the pain hit: "I could feel my heartbeat in my throat and out my chest. The pain is a pinching feeling, a shooting pain down your shoulder. Someone sort of grabbing something inside your chest and twisting it."

Pulling over near Ashburton, he was soon in an ambulance, only to face dismissal at the hospital. A doctor told him, “Don't let this put you off your second vaccine.”

His mother, Aly, remembers the terror: "We had a phone call to say he was in an ambulance. I begged him not to get it. I tried to say, ‘Come home, let's ride this out.’ But he was going to lose his job. He was going to lose his home. The pressure was so great."

Dismissed with "anxiety" despite clear ECG signs of pericarditis (later described by a cardiologist as impossible to miss), Bailey endured repeated hospital visits across Ashburton, Christchurch, Queenstown and Nelson. Records vanished: ECGs not uploaded, blood tests "lost," a cardiac referral "dropped off" the system. Aly launched investigations into four DHBs: "One hospital loses records, that's an accident. But it seems very odd that all of them have lost them."

Forced out of his job, Bailey and his partner uprooted back to Nelson, living in his truck during the vaccine pass era, reliant on Nurofen for pain: "I've woken up countless times thinking, ‘Am I just going to cark it?’"

As a heavy vehicle driver, he warns of public safety risks: "You've got truck drivers driving around with heart issues and they've just accepted it because no one believes them."

Christmas Eve 2022 brought a breakthrough – a sympathetic ED doctor finally consulted a cardiologist, leading to Bailey's first formal diagnosis: "vaccine-induced pericarditis." But relief was short-lived: ACC denied his claim for treatment injury compensation. Aly and Bailey fought back, and after endless loopholes and reviews, the ICRA finally quashed ACC's decision in December 2024, approving Bailey for COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Pericarditis.

"The Medical Council have put the fear of God into doctors. They are frightened to actually even diagnose someone that's been hurt by the Covid vaccine," Aly says.

Bailey reflects bitterly: "It's a very exhausting process to be dealing with while you're essentially suffering. No one deserves it."

Aly's OIAs reveal the scale: ACC payouts for vaccine injuries jumped from $145k annually pre-2021 to $11.4m by 2024 (now $18.98m per latest data), with only 1 in 4 claims approved. She also discovered under-40s ED visits for chest pain spiked in 2021 – also matched in Australia, where both countries rolled out vaccines pre-COVID waves.

Bailey's pain persists, and is recurring. His cardiologist, confronting this anomaly head-on notes that pericarditis in her vaccine-injured patients deviates from pre-COVID norms, and is unresponsive to the typical treatments.

For Bailey, it's an ongoing struggle: "I probably would have pinned him [my 25-year-old self] against a wall and gone, ‘Don't do it. You're going to regret it.’"

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SUMMARY
00:47 - Getting the first Pfizer shot – severe chest pain on the road.
02:01 - Ambulance to Ashburton ED – "don't skip the second shot"
02:41 - Christchurch Hospital visit – "anxiety," discharge without help
03:31 - Employer meeting, refusing second shot leads to job loss
04:52 - Aly's perspective – begging him not to get it
06:13 - Job pressures and dream truck
07:37 - Public safety concerns – drivers with hidden heart issues
10:14 - Christmas Eve breakthrough – first formal pericarditis diagnosis
12:26 - ACC battles begin – initial denial, missing records exposed.
15:09 - ACC approval – no one deserves that fight.
18:57 - OIA revelations – payout spikes, delays in claims, doctors' fears
20:35 - First cardiology visit – under-40s chest pain surge
22:13 - Ongoing treatment struggles – recurring attacks
24:38 - Aly's vow for justice – criminal injustice
25:39 - Advice to past self – "Don't do it"