A few words from Eithne
When I first met Barry at St Stephen Green I was at the beginning of my vaccine injury journey. Little did I know what lay ahead of me. I thought then that the worst was behind me, that I had survived! Had beaten that near death ‘moment’, the crisis, that things would get easier, that I would find a way forward, conquer the pain. Bring down the inflammation somehow. How wrong was I!!! I thought I would be able to go to every rally, stand with Barry and the team, hold the board he had gotten made for me, which said I’M NOT ANTI-VAX, I’M VACCINE INJURED, but that was not to be. I just got sicker and sicker, each consultant I saw seemed to close the door in my face, some even seemed to be laughing at me.
All through this, when my husband thought I had died, over and over, several times in fact, Barry and the WakeUpéiRe team went out, when I and others like me were too sick to open our eyes, don’t mind warn people…. This might happen to you, or your Child, or your Grandmother, or your Dad!
And lots of us, the vaccine injured, never got to open their eyes again, I saw the extra funerals. I spoke to my friends, one is an embalmer. What he has to tell me is heartbreaking, young people dying with hybrid clots, numbers getting higher and higher over the last three years. Without WakeUpéiRe the death toll in Ireland would be even higher than it is. I hope to spend some time out with them again soon.
I’ve made it through another year, but I’m praying for the future still, and for Barry, Cathriona and everyone who gives their time for WakeUpéiRe. I just wish I had met them before 18th May 2021
Eithne Branigan
