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Allison Inquiry | Dianne Spaulding | Day 4 September 11th, 2026
A 61-year-old Toronto lab technician describes flu-like illness, a bleed and a falling platelet count within days of her single AstraZeneca dose, followed by bruising, tremors, vision changes and months of fatigue. She describes being told it was anxiety, a public health letter urging a second dose, and a hospital apology 20 months later.
Dianne Spaulding, 61, a healthcare lab technician who was 56 and active when she received her first and only AstraZeneca dose on April 23, 2021 at a pharmacy inside Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She says she was nervous about the rare clotting reports and was reassured by the pharmacist. After three days of flu-like illness, she says a bleed appeared on her arm on day five, and emergency blood work showed a platelet count of about 400, a drop of about 200 from her usual level. A week later she describes widespread bruising, petechiae, splinter hemorrhages, pins and needles up her arms and legs, blurry vision, chest vibrations, tremors, light and noise sensitivity, extreme fatigue and three months in bed. She says a hospital CT was inconclusive and she was offered a psychiatric consult for anxiety, and that a Toronto Public Health recommendation in her records urged a second mRNA dose despite her symptoms. Spaulding describes a family doctor who referred her widely, a neurologist who said she had essential tremors and that she was not the first vaccine-injured patient he had seen, and a call from Mount Sinai apologizing 20 months later. She founded a Canadian support group in 2022, says a Toronto doctor treated her with ivermectin and that her tremors and most symptoms then eased, and that fatigue and a drugged feeling remain. She limits herself to about four hours on her feet and asks the medical system for compassion.
Dianne Spaulding, 61, a healthcare lab technician who was 56 and active when she received her first and only AstraZeneca dose on April 23, 2021 at a pharmacy inside Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She says she was nervous about the rare clotting reports and was reassured by the pharmacist. After three days of flu-like illness, she says a bleed appeared on her arm on day five, and emergency blood work showed a platelet count of about 400, a drop of about 200 from her usual level. A week later she describes widespread bruising, petechiae, splinter hemorrhages, pins and needles up her arms and legs, blurry vision, chest vibrations, tremors, light and noise sensitivity, extreme fatigue and three months in bed. She says a hospital CT was inconclusive and she was offered a psychiatric consult for anxiety, and that a Toronto Public Health recommendation in her records urged a second mRNA dose despite her symptoms. Spaulding describes a family doctor who referred her widely, a neurologist who said she had essential tremors and that she was not the first vaccine-injured patient he had seen, and a call from Mount Sinai apologizing 20 months later. She founded a Canadian support group in 2022, says a Toronto doctor treated her with ivermectin and that her tremors and most symptoms then eased, and that fatigue and a drugged feeling remain. She limits herself to about four hours on her feet and asks the medical system for compassion.
