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Shawn Buckley

Okay, thank you. So we’ll proceed. Our next witness is going to be Carley Walterson-Dupuis.

Wayne Lenhardt

Could you give us your full name, and then spell it for me, and then you’ll have to give us your oath.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

My name is Carley Walterson-Dupuis C-A-R-L-E-Y W-A-L-T-E-R-S-O-N hyphen D-U-P-U-I-S.

Wayne Lenhardt

And do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth during your testimony today?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I do.

Wayne Lenhardt

I’ll try to help condense this almost two-year saga of yours that you’ve gone through after your shot. When did you get the Moderna shot?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

On June 28th of 2021.

Wayne Lenhardt

And why did you get it?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I got it because I wasn’t going to be allowed into sports facilities for my kids.

Wayne Lenhardt

And right after you got the shot you started having symptoms.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yeah.

Wayne Lenhardt

Is that correct? Can you tell us about that?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yeah. The day of, I felt fine. It was the next day that I started experiencing some stomach problems that lasted about three weeks. From there, I had vertigo for a week, which was new to me. I’ve never experienced dizziness like that before. Following the vertigo was the really scary part. I experienced heart problems: heart palpitations, loss of breath. I couldn’t exercise.

Wayne Lenhardt

And that developed over the course of the first four to five weeks after your shot. Correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

One of your family members, I believe, took you into urgent care at about the five-week mark. Correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

And what happened? Why did you go to urgent care and what happened?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I was sitting at my desk at home; I was working from home at the time. And I could feel my heart beating out of my chest. It was very, very uncomfortable. I was losing my breath and felt very scared. So I was talking to my mom, who is a nurse, and she took me into urgent care that day.

Wayne Lenhardt

And what did they do at urgent care?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

They did an EKG. I got into a room and they had me lay down in a bed. I was hooked up to heart monitors, but everything came back normal. There were no abnormalities that were found on the EKG. The doctors that I spoke to would not consider it being from the vaccine, at all.

Wayne Lenhardt

And they sent your home. Correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

They sent me home because everything looked normal.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. So you went back to your family doctor at that point. Correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I did, yes.

Wayne Lenhardt

What did he say?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

My family doctor also didn’t want to consider this being from the vaccine. But she’s known me my entire life. She actually delivered me into the world, so she knows my entire health history, and I’ve never had a problem before. So she got me in to see a specialist. She recommended me to a cardiologist in the city.

Wayne Lenhardt

And that took you a certain amount of time to make that appointment, and your symptoms continued during that time. Did they?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

What were the symptoms?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Heart palpitations, loss of breath, and by this point, I was also experiencing chest pain, on and off.

Wayne Lenhardt

You had to rest during the day.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I had to rest during the day. Yeah. My workdays, I work at a desk at home all day. But I had to actually go and lay down multiple times in the day to get my heart rate back to normal.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. So finally, you got to go in to see that cardiologist. What happened there?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

He was aggressive, very dismissive, and rude.

Wayne Lenhardt

They did a second EKG?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

He did a second EKG. Everything looked normal still. But he was aggressive and continued to push me to go and get another shot.

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Which I refused.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. So then you went back to your family doctor, correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yes.

Wayne Lenhardt

We’re at about the ten-week mark from the time you got your shot. And you’re still having problems, correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

So your family doctor then did what?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

She recommended me to an allergist just to make sure that this wasn’t an allergy-related symptom, which I figured it wasn’t. So I spoke to an allergist on the phone. I never saw him in person. He ruled out any of my symptoms being allergy related. He said he had a friend that’s a cardiologist in the city, and he recommended me to see him.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. So you actually went to a second cardiologist at that point, didn’t you?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

And what happened then?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

He was very kind. He made me feel validated. He verbalized to me that this is definitely from the vaccine. He also said that there are numerous other people going through this. It was nice to feel not alone.

Wayne Lenhardt

Is he the one that told you might have an [autonomic] nervous system disorder?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Correct. He is the one that diagnosed me with that.

Wayne Lenhardt

Did he prescribe anything for you?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

I was prescribed beta blockers at that time.

Wayne Lenhardt

We’re now at about the thirteen-week point after your shot. You went back to your family doctor at that point, and I’m trying to decipher my notes here. Was there another cardiologist that you went to at this point?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

That was the only cardiologist. But at that appointment with my doctor, she brought up my medical files, and he wrote— The cardiologist wrote in my medical files that it was from COVID.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. So you started to feel somewhat better at this point, is that correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yes, things were on and off. It wasn’t as persistent as it was in the beginning where it was every day. I would experience on and off symptoms, so I’d have some good days, some bad.

Wayne Lenhardt

Around March of 2022, you started to go to a homeopathic doctor.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

That’s correct.

Wayne Lenhardt

And he prescribed vitamins and a food regimen and that type of thing, correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yeah, I looked into alternative methods of healing as the healthcare system was failing me at that point, and I wasn’t willing to live the way I was living.

Wayne Lenhardt

And you still have some symptoms today, although things have improved to some extent.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yes. A lot of symptoms have improved. I would say my heart is back to normal at this time; although, we don’t know what long-term effects could be. My only ongoing symptom is everyday dizziness. If I turn my head a certain way, I’m dizzy. So it’s just something I’ve had to live with now.

Wayne Lenhardt

How was your health prior to getting the Moderna shot?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

A hundred per cent.

Wayne Lenhardt

Did you have any ailments of any kind?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Never.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. At the present time, again, you still have dizziness during the day. Correct?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yes.

Wayne Lenhardt

Is there anything else that I may have missed in your health saga here for those,

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

That sums up it.

Wayne Lenhardt

a year and 10 months, I think it is.

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Yeah.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. I think I’m going to turn you over to the commissioners. Are there any questions that you have for this witness?

Carley Walterson-Dupuis

Thank you.

Wayne Lenhardt

Okay. Thank you very much for your testimony. Appreciate you coming.

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Final Review and Approval: Margaret Phillips, August 10, 2023.

The evidence offered in this transcript is a true and faithful record of witness testimony given during the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) hearings. The transcript was prepared by members of a team of volunteers using an “intelligent verbatim” transcription method.

For further information on the transcription process, method, and team, see the NCI website: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/about-these-transcripts/

Summary

Carley Walterson-Dupuis took a Moderna shot on June 28th, 2021, so that she could attend her children’s sport facilities; She would not be allowed into sports facilities unvaccinated.

The day after her shot she started to experience adverse reactions beginning with stomach problems. In the following weeks she developed vertigo, heart palpitations, chest pain and loss of breath.

Ms. Walterson-Dupuis went through several doctors and specialists and was repeatedly told everything looked normal. After seeing a second cardiologist, he verbalized that: “This is definitely from the vaccine”. He also told her that there are numerous other people going through this. She is now seeing a homeopathic doctor.