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| Alana & Lydia Krzyzak 
Click here to read Alana & Lydia's Story Ashley Ryburn 
Ashley has posted a video of what her life is like and the injuries she has sustained. Click here to see Ashley's Video Click Here for Another Video of Ashley Ashley’s Story My daughter received the Gardasil Vaccine in 08/07 and 10/07 along with the vaccine for meningitis.
Since then, my healthy teenage daughter became a chronically ill young woman. In the last year I have called 911 more times than I can count. She has been hospitalized three time within a year. We have seen many doctors and specialist who have done many tests multiple times all to be within normal limits. Ashley experiences life threatening episodes of seizure like activity, difficulty breathing, major back spasms, paralysis, dehydration, memory loss and tremors, she becomes unresponsive. And daily illnesses of nausea, exhaustion, vomiting, pain, and hair loss. I have provided CPR and life saving skills on a regular basis.
Ashley has missed a semester of school and now only attends 1-2 days a week. She has no energy to have a normal teen life and keep up with her friends. She can sleep up to 15 hours a day. After an episode she will sleep up to three days. Ashley has always been involved in extra curricular school activities and has always received top grades. . . .
I am so proud of who she is.
Now she is ill. Her life is dealing with daily symptoms and hoping for a day without a life threatening episode. Going to school and trying to stay caught up with her school work. Again, because of who she is, her teachers, counselors, school nurse and administrators are supporting her and becoming personally involved with her success in her education. They have gone above and beyond what I can ask for. Even taking the responsibility to provide the skills necessary to keep her stable when she has an episode at school before 911 arrives.
Ashley and I have had conversations in the event if she may die. I can only promise her that I will do everything in my power for this not to happen. And we need to focus on healing. I never thought in a million years a vaccine would do this much damage to my beautiful girl.
I stay strong for my daughter. I also cry with her too. I keep faith in knowing God doesn’t put more on our shoulders than we can handle. As a mother, I also feel the responsibility to get Ashley’s story out there so we can help other families.
I have always taken pride in how I handle finances. I have never made income above the poverty level and I do have poor credit only do to life circumstances. We have never lived out of our means. I have always provided the basic needs and stayed off government help.
For my daughters health, I will swallow my pride and ask for help. She deserves to have the best medical treatment so we can heal her.
Please help us. Thank you for taking the time and allowing me to share our story. Please help us.
Respectfully,
Lisa Holtman Nora Kenney (Illnois) 
“Nora has always been a great kid---she's the oldest of our 3---a 16 year brother, Jack and a 15 year-old sister, Sally. Nora was an honor role student her entire high school career, a 3 sport athlete until her senior year where she only played basketball and softball. She was named all academic-all conference for each sport she played. She has always made friends easily and enjoys the things that most girls her age do. She started working as a hostess at a local Red Lobster in the spring of her Junior year and was promoted to waitress last summer. She attends the University of Illinois at Champaign and plans to major in Kinesiology.”
“I am very proud of Nora and I feel very badly that I agreed to have her receive Gardasil. She asked me the other day why we didn't know of its potential harm....I had no good answer.”
“Nora is now taking seizure medication. There is no family history of seizures.”
“She received her first shot June 16, 2008 and fainted June 21, 2008. My husband and I were at a friend’s house for dinner. At about 7:30pm, our youngest daughter called to say something was wrong with our 18 year old daughter Nora, and that the ambulance was taking her to the ER. She received her second shot August 19, 2008 and had the seizures September 2, 2008. I got a phone call from a young woman who lives on the same floor in the same dorm as Nora to let me know that Nora had had a seizure.” Submitted by Nina Kenney - Nora's Mom Theresa Bohn  Theresa Bohn (Marlborough, Massachusetts) Prior to Gardasil, I had no previous known illnesses or behavioral issues, except for an occasional migraine headache. I had no complications whatsoever with IUD or menstrual cycle until after I had my first Gardasil shot (Lot 1758U) on April 28, 2008 - IUD removed October 2008. My second Gardasil vaccination (Lot 0651X) was on January 8, 2009 and I had this along with a tetanus shot. My symptoms include: 30 lbs unexplained weight loss and my hair falling out in clumps and migraines. I experienced sudden sharp pains all over my body, which are most intense in my head, abdomen and legs. Earaches and frequent ear popping with pain and stiffness in elbows, knees, wrists and ankles and a numbness in my face including lips, nose and cheeks; pressure in sinuses, stiffness and tightening in my neck. I have had vision problems including double vision, blurred vision, light auras, difficulty focusing and pain/pressure in and around my eyes. Frequent muscle spasms all over and a weakness/numbness/tingling in arms and pains in legs. Have experienced weak to no reflexes in my left elbow and right knee and have had chest pains and tightness. Sharp shooting pains in pelvic area/vaginal areas. Also my menstrual cycle has been irregular and heaviness with pain in lower back. Cramps/Charlie horses in legs and feet and also cold hands and feet and also experiencing tremors in my legs. Severe anxiety issues, causing my heart to race/blood pressure to increase; anger and irritability issues. I am unable to concentrate for any length of time. The sensation to urinate comes on strong and it feels like I am going to lose control and am left with a feeling of incomplete urination.
Diagnosis: An X-ray showed my spine is straightening and CT scan showed my intestine is swollen. I have received no exact diagnosis as yet. I am to receive an MRI of my brain and neck (cervical) in August 2009 and shortly afterwards I am scheduled to see a Neurologist. Gardasil has completely changed my life. Before Gardasil, I never had a pain that I could not explain. For a year now I have been in and out of doctors offices desperately searching for an answer. I am no longer able to perform my job the way I used to. Before Gardasil, I was enrolled in college with a 4.0 and now I cannot even finish a book I am just trying to enjoy. I feel like I am not giving my son and fiancé the time they deserve from me, because I am too tired, in too much pain, or because I am at the doctor’s office. I just want to be myself again and enjoy every moment of being a mom, but everyday it feels like I am falling further away from the “old me” or the “me before Gardasil.” (Email address: theresa182@gmail.com) Steffanee Richardson  Steffanee Richardson (Hallsville, Missouri) Letter from Steffanee's Mom My daughter Steffanee’s illnesses started after she had completed her three Gardasil vaccinations, the first was in 8/2008, the second in 11/2008 and the final vaccination she had on 1/2/2009. Her serious health problems started on February 2, 2009 and from that moment on things started to deteriorate. Over a period of time she had four ER visits at the University of Missouri, Columbia and the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. Her many symptoms included: headaches, panic attacks, she could not breathe, felt her throat was closing up, brain fog, fatigue, severe joint and muscle pain and spasms, really bad knee pain, energy level low, non epileptic seizures, twitches, neurological disorder with muscle movements that are uncontrollable, jerking of limbs and entire body. That is to name just a few and today there has been a slight improvement, doing better, but still has twitching/jerking of limbs and knee pain.
Our lives were turned upside down on Feb 2, 2009. We got a call from her school, our 17 year old daughter was having severe seizures, screaming in pain. This was the very first time I had ever seen anything like that. It started with muscle spasms in her back. It was like that for 6 weeks, ambulance rides and in and out of hospitals and ERs. It was her first visit to the hospital; she was a very healthy girl prior to having the Gardasil vaccinations. I worry about her every day. Her life has been on hold for about 5 months, she sleeps a lot. She is very fatigued most of the time. Her personality changed through all this, I'm sure it's because she was in so much pain. I hope and pray every single day that these seizures will stop, that this Gardasil vaccine will get out of her system and let her have her life back. She went through a depression when she was in and out of the hospital, missing school & cheerleading. She was VERY active prior to February 2, 2009.
I have to have my cell phone with me every minute of the day, afraid that she will need me or that one of her friends is trying to get in touch with me, because she is having a seizure. Adolescents are supposed to be carefree and worry about nothing. Gardasil changed that for a lot of girls. The emotional stress alone has been very hard on our family. The financial part has added more stress. I believe they have run every test available on her, all results......normal. That in itself is not normal with all the serious health problems that Steffanee has.
They say stress adds to the Gardasil Girls problems. How can they not be stressed, worrying that they will become ill at school and their parents would then have to be sent for? (Email address: r0br1ch24@aol.com) Cassie Summers Cassie Summers (Missouri) Letter from Cassie’s mom  “Our nightmare started December 2007 without us even knowing it and willingly my fun loving active daughter pulled up her sleeve and received the first of three Gardasil vaccines. Cassie, 14 at the time, is known for her genuine love of life and her heart warming smile, she was very active in church and youth group belonging to FCA at school as well as playing volleyball and running track. That was until Gardasil stole her life away from her”.
“Since receiving her third Gardasil vaccine she has been hospitalized 4 times and had in my opinion a unnecessary surgery, she has been diagnosed with pancreatitis, gastrointestinal disorders, had pneumonia three times, and is also suffering from a variety of symptoms including extreme nausea and vomiting resulting in having a central line placed and being put on TPN and Lipids (IV nutrition), fatigue, dizziness, headaches, hypersensitive to light and sound, blurred vision, lactation, seizure like activity, tingling and numbness in legs and severe pain in her abdomen. My once fun loving, active daughter is now debilitated with illness and pain, however she refuses to allow Gardasil to take away her loving spirit and warming smile.”
“Through all of this she has taught me so much about never giving up and never losing faith in God, even at times when I was so afraid to take my eyes off her in fear she would not take another breathe”, she would say, "I know God has a plan I know there is a reason for my sickness." “ We could all learn a lot from these girls I know I have and I am so proud of Cassie.” Laurel Brishel Prichard 
Laurel Brishel Prichard (Alburquerque, New Mexico) My daughter was perfectly healthy until she received the first Gardasil vaccination at 18 years of age on March 23, 2008. Within 24 hours of the vaccine she began complaining of a terrible backache which lasted about a week. Then she started having fatigue, stomach aches, vision problems and overall body aches. She had her first seizure within a week after these symptoms. She got the second shot on May 6, 2008 and the symptoms worsened and so did the full grand-mal, tonic-clonic seizures. She also started having migraines, tremors and bruising. The seizures increased to daily, sometimes more. We spent the summer of 2008 calling ambulances and in the hospital (UNMH, Lovelace) where they said the seizures were non-epileptic. She also had several UTIs which she'd never had in her life. In July, she had a cluster of seizures (4) and almost died on my living room floor when she stopped breathing and turned blue. By the Fall of 2008 the seizures started spreading out further. We did not get the 3rd Gardasil shot as I had made the connection between her illness and the vaccine. As time passed, the symptoms seemed to be resolving one by one. In December 2008 she had a new symptom, bleeding gums which lasted until July 2009 and now this appears to have been resolved. Her last seizure was January of 2009 until this past weekend, August 15, 2009 when she had 3 seizures. She still suffers from the seizures and a severe tremor that has never gone away or lessened. She has fought hard for her life and to get her health back. She's stayed in College, though her grades fell from the Dean's List prior to the vaccine. My daughter was perfectly healthy until she received this unnecessary vaccine. I know the vaccine made her ill and I want to know how to make her well again. Stop this vaccine before any other girls are injured. She lost her independence and had to move home, her job, her grades, her health, her freedom and I have spent the last 18 months with many sleepless nights, spent tons of money on medical bills, endured horrid treatment by medical professionals because they didn't have answers and my business has suffered too as she could not be left alone because of the drop seizures. Please investigate this vaccine and help our girls and prevent other girls and mothers from enduring this nightmare. Email address: guardiansagainstgardasil@yahoo.com Mikaela Tindell
Mikaela Tindell (Tennessee) This girl's name is Mikaela and she was  10 years old when she received her first Gardasil shot. Before the shot she was a healthy and active young girl. Mikaela received her first shot in July of 2007 and in two weeks had a rash on her face, neck and chest and facial swelling. She received the next doses in September of 2007 and January of 2008. Presently Mikaela is suffering from fatigue, nausea, stomach pain, migraine headaches and has been diagnosed with PCOS. Her periods stopped shortly after the vaccine. This young girl struggles every day with fatigue and pain but still maintains a B average in school even though she misses a lot of school days. This girl's mother, as at original date of writing this piece, was the moderator of a group called Let's Talk About Gardasil. Crissey Meeks 
Crissey Meeks (Raliegh, North Carolina) My name is Crissey Meeks and I am 27 years old and I know there are a lot of teenagers dealing with a lot of unexplained symptoms after receiving the Gardasil shot. I just want to share my experience with them and the world. People, doctors, parents, and politicians need to be aware of the toxins they are pumping into innocent victims on a daily basis. Before ever receiving the Gardasil shot I was perfectly normal, I was a young, vibrant, and full of energy woman. I mean I loved my life and I lived it to the full. I was your typical over the age of 21 young woman and I was very social, going out and just highly active.
It all started with an abnormal pap smear. My gynaecologist was to perform a colposcopy and I had the procedure done. When I came back to the doctor for the results she stated that it would be very beneficial for me to receive the HPV Vaccine. You know she told me all the things that it would be helpful for me to hear. How it will prevent cervical cancer, how it was free, and it was basically a win, win situation. I read the pamphlet and then I made the worst decision of my life.
On 5/11/07 I received the 1st shot of the series. As soon as it went into my arm I felt a burning sensation going through my arm & my body. I left the doctor’s office after this and went back to work. My right arm was so sore, but I figured it was normal to have the pain and swelling. Little to my knowledge did I realize that my life would change after that. My right side was extremely sore for over a week. I had this kind of knot in my arm at the injection site. Still I just brushed it off as a normal reaction to the vaccination.
6/08/07 I started feeling a little funny. I couldn’t really explain it. I felt pain in my stomach, achy all over; I just kept on doing what I was doing. My brother was leaving for India so I was trying to plan a farewell get together at my house on the 9th. So I was pretty much running around trying to get things together. Saturday morning I was up to get started with all the preparations. I felt horrible and it hurt so bad just to stand upright. My belly hurt so much and I hadn’t eaten anything since that Friday morning. I just did not have an appetite. Family & friends started coming. I mean we had food galore. I never touched anything. My sister noticed I wasn’t eating and I just said I wasn’t hungry. I was tired and in so much pain. The next morning I felt worse, but it was Sunday and my usual routine is to go to church. I remember this like it was yesterday. I had on my red sleeveless summer dress and I headed for church. I mean my car was a 5 speed & it about killed me to drive. I drove slouched over because by then everything hurt. My head, eyes, arms, legs, abdomen, it felt like I was falling apart. I sat in church in agony and I couldn’t even get up to put my offering in the basket. I left church and went to my mother’s house as we always gather at her house after church. She made my favorite roast and lemon cake, but I never said a word to anyone, I just sat in the chair in pure pain. I really do not let people know when I feel bad as I do not want anyone feeling sorry for me. I stayed at her house for about 30 minutes and then I simply got up walked outside and left. I didn’t say good bye, I was leaving, nothing. I just didn’t want to be around anyone. Once I made it home I just cried. I could not even take off my dress. I finally called my mom around 10p.m. and told her how bad I felt. She said to call my brother so he could take me to the ER. But going there is a last resort for me as you have to drag me to the hospital. I just lay on the couch and cried. The next morning I tried getting it together to go to work. I still felt the same way but I pushed myself to go. I sat at my desk slouched over, dizzy, feeling like crap. I think I stayed 30 minutes. I called my family practice physician, they told me to come in that day. I arrived at the surgery and they really did not know what was wrong with me. I was thinking that they would at least make me feel a little better but unfortunately no. They drew blood and put me out of work for the week. I get my results back and they say I need to go and see a specialist (Rheumatologist) and so I did that. They do the exact same thing as before, run tests and draw blood. So I stay out of work for another week. Once they got the results back they tell me I have Lupus. So I accept their diagnosis as I figured that had to be my problem. He said the condition was controllable.
7/19/07 I go back to my gynaecologist to get the next shot. Still oblivious that this was the reason I was sick in the first place. I have the same symptoms after the fact, but by now I am having these trembles. I have never had this before in my life. In certain periods of time my arm or my legs just start to shake. I still just brushed it off, even although it was not normal for me to do this. I still have the joint and muscle pain, headaches, sensitivity to sunlight, but I am still trying to live my life. I am not active at all and I don’t want to do anything and I am complaining about everything. My whole attitude has changed. It seems I am angry all the time, forgetting the simplest things.
10/18/07 I go and get my last shot. The gynaecologist was on vacation but her nurse rendered my shot. Now I received my Gardasil in one arm and my Depo shot in the other. I thought it was crazy to get both of these shots at the same time. But I am the patient. I did not know that I was not supposed to receive more than one vaccination at a time. So now I have both arms in pain. But still I never put two and two together. Now it’s December 2008. and I am still going through the same thing, only I started getting worse. I figured it was a part of my Lupus so I went to my physician again for advice as I was just in pain everyday. Medicine wasn’t working and I was taking a hot bath everyday. Everything I did made me feel tired and I have an attitude that is off the hook. My back hurts, my neck hurts, I also have trembles, tingling, headaches, and dizzy spells. But I went to the doctor and they ran tests and took x-rays. When she got my blood work back she said everything was normal other than my WBC was low. My chest x-ray showed something so I ended up having to get a CT scan and this did not identify any problem. I went back to the doctor and I have had a muscle enzyme test, in which it was highly elevated showing I have inflammation in my muscles. My WBC went back to normal but my iron levels have decreased. So now I am on iron pills. I have been tested for everything under the sun. When I started the vaccine my menstrual cycle changed and I have not had my period in over a year. Since September 2008, my cycle has been going crazy. I have anger issues that I really cannot control sometimes. It’s just like I am a whole different person than the person I was before 5/11/07. I have bursts of anger towards everyone. No one is excluded from my rage. At one point in time I thought I was just crazy. I just want to go back to the old Crissey and I push myself everyday. Sometimes I feel like I am alone in this. I know something is wrong with me, but when you cannot even get the doctors to admit that it is from this vaccine then where do you go? What do you do? I once was happy about my life, even when things weren’t all that great. Now it’s like I am in this depression that I cannot get out of. The worry, the stress, it’s just too much sometimes.
02/19/09 – Today I am still going to the doctor on a regular basis for everything. I go to several doctors now. I get diagnosed with this and with that. Take pills for this and that. Before the shots I was healthy, I did not have any medical issues and I was very active. Now it’s like I am just a whole different person. I was diagnosed with pancreatitis. I have ulcers in my stomach & intestines. I go through memory lapses when I forget things. My food does not digest so I go long periods without having a bowel movement. I have had ultrasounds, MRI’s, you name it. I push myself and keep going because I have a 9 year old daughter that I want to see get older. When I look at her it keeps me going. (Email address: crissey.meeks@yahoo.com) | |
| MEMORIALS Ian Larsen Gromowski 
Ian at Birth Ian 9 days After the Hepatitis B Vaccine On June 25, 2007, Scott and Deanna Gromowski welcomed their son Ian Larsen Gromowski into the world. Ian was administered the Hepatits B vaccine at 7 days old. Ian began suffering adverse reactions that same day - by Day 9 Ian was in serious condition and on August 10, at 47 days old Ian lost his battle for life. Scott and Deanna, have been so strong to share their story and we appreciate having their permission to post this link on our page. Click Here To Read Ian's Story Gardasil Memorials All of the following young women have died after receiving the Gardasil Vaccine Jenny Tetlock  “Jenny Tetlock (California – Northern) was a 15-year-old girl battling a rapidly degenerative neurological disease that some MDs think MAY be linked to the HPV vaccine she received shortly before her first symptoms appeared. (There is no scientific proof one way or the other but Dr Diane Harper, leading researcher who helped design and carry out Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved and acted as a consultant to Merck, believes that the possibility of a triggering of a genetic disorder within a family has to be considered seriously).” From Jenny’s Journey
Jenny passed away on March 15, 2009 surrounded by her family.
Jenny’s Journey gives more details of the events surrounding this young girl’s sudden illness following her Gardasil vaccination. Click Here to Read Jenny's Journal
Moshella Roberts
Moshella Roberts, 20, a student from Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, (Carolina - North). She died from the Gardasil vaccination, her first day on the job at Trinity Home Care, April 5, 2008. Shelly appeared to have died in her sleep while on the job that morning.
Shelly was a funny, quiet and easy-going person. Although she had a ’laid back’ personality, she loved to help other people. In her spare time, she enjoyed doing hair and spending time with family and friends. In High School she was a varsity cheerleader, an active volunteer for her community (Special Olympics, make-up artist for a major play, and various town functions) and she received her C.N.A, all while maintaining a honor status. She received her post-secondary education at Fayetteville State University, majoring in psychology.
During her sophomore year, she sought employment through a home health care agency, and suddenly died at her first day on the job, coincidentally four days after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. Brooke Petkevicius 
Brooke Petkevicius (Florida) who was 19 when she died while at the University of California, Berkeley where she studied social work and was involved in many extracurricular activities including co-ed volleyball and ballroom dancing. She played on an intramural volleyball team, went to kickboxing classes. She also was a social welfare major. She died 14 days after her first dose of Gardasil from a pulmonary embolism or blood clot on March 26th, 2007. There is no family history of this.
Brooke’s story: “Brooke did not smoke,” said her school friend, Megan Sedowski. “She was possibly one of the healthiest people I’ve ever met. She never did drugs and rarely drank alcohol. She worked out daily, and took a lot of classes at the gym. She never complained about anything, really, certainly not her health. She was an amazing, upbeat, caring, healthy young woman and her death was a complete shock.” Brooke had dressed to go running with a friend because they were training for a half-marathon. She walked to the elevator, collapsed against the wall and had a seizure. Brooke was rushed to the hospital and passed away.
Brooke never had any problems with blood clots, nor did her family have any history of clotting problems. Subsequent tests of her younger sister and her mother showed nothing genetic. Brooke had no allergies, no tobacco use, and no past substance abuse problems. Drug tests came back negative.
Cynthia Janak, who wrote this piece on Brooke, spoke to all her family. They told her what a wonderful, kind-hearted young woman she was. She had dreams and aspirations for her future and how her laughter was contagious and how her smile lit up a room. This was a girl who had it hard growing up, as many of us, but became a stronger person for it. The phrase Cynthia likes to use is “she took sour grapes and made fine wine.” (Email address: gzsrocks@yahoo.com)
Christina Richelle Tarsell  Chris was a girl on the go; a girl with a vision. She loved being at Bard College where she was an honor student. She loved studio art, philosophy, the tennis team, visits to New York City and hanging out with her caring, fun-loving friends. She was generous, compassionate and always gave back to others. Between her junior and senior years, Chris had a summer job working at the college art museum while living with classmates in a house in Tivoli, NY. So after a short visit home to Maryland, Chris returned to Bard and her job on June 13, 2008. During the visit home, on June 3rd, Chris had gotten her third shot of Gardasil. A few days later, Chris complained of feeling dizzy, tired and she developed a rash on her neck. She had a post-vaccine cough and sinus congestion that wouldn’t go away. We were never told of any side effects to Gardasil so we did not know these signs were significant. Chris was found dead in her bed 18 days after her third shot. What could have happened? Chris was always a healthy, wholesome girl, a non-smoker, an athlete. She didn’t take drugs or medication. As of this writing, the cause is “undetermined”. Further investigation suggests that Chris, like other girls who died following Gardasil, may have had an autoimmune related response triggered by the vaccine. The CDC wants you to dismiss them as “coincidences,” while our beautiful, innocent daughters die needlessly. (Email address: chriscares@live.com)
Amber Kaufman 
Amber Kaufman (St Louis, Missouri) was a perfectly healthy 16 year old teenage girl who collapsed on her way into work with a seizure and her heart then stopped. Amber played volleyball, track, bowled and loved hanging out with her boyfriend, family and friends. She was up beat fun and loved life. She was the last in the nest, she was my best friend. She looked forward to joining the military like her older brother and sister. Her cause of death was listed as “cardiac disturbance of undetermined etiology.”
Amber’s story – March 31st 2008, Amber went to the doctor for a sore throat and at the same time she was administered her second shot of Gardasil; she also had a shot of Rocephin and was put on Erythromycin (Z pack). Being her mom, I asked if she should have the shot since she was sick and her nurse practitioner said it would be no problem. She was also in the middle of her menstrual cycle when she received this shot. She stayed home from school a couple of days as she complained of headaches, being tired and slept a lot. I attributed it to her illness. She went to school on 4/3/08. Amber was on her way to work after school and I was on my way home, she called to let me know that the road to our house was closed due to water. That was the last time I ever talked to her, about 15 minutes later I got a call from her work saying she had collapsed on her way into work. I live only a few blocks from where she works. When I arrived they were just getting ready to start CPR. Amber was taken to the hospital about 15 minutes away, they did not get a heart beat until they reached the emergency room. She was transferred to St. Louis Children’s Hospital where she did not come off life support. Her brain had swelled and without a breathing tube or tube feeding she would not be able to live, she was brain dead. Amber was an organ donor on April 7, 2008. I sat at her head in the surgery room while they removed her breathing tube, she tried breathing for a while, I’m the one that had to tell her to go and to just be at peace and I was with her at the end. No mother should have to do that for her child, it was the hardest thing I have ever done or ever will do in my life! I am so glad my Amber saved at least five other lives. I get up every day because I know she would want me to let others know not to get this vaccine to prevent this from happening to any other young woman or mom. (Email address: teri6248@yahoo.com)
Megan Hild 
Megan Hild (Los Lunas, New Mexico) (died November 2008 - age 20) Megan loved children especially her nieces and nephew. Her family was her life and she never missed an opportunity to spend time with them. She especially liked to be at home just hanging out with family and friends. Megan was a student at CNM working towards her Associates degree in radiology and general studies. Megan’s beautiful smile will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. She was a very healthy and happy young lady and loved going to college.
Here is an excerpt of an email from her mother. On her death certificate it will read, Cause of death unknown. She’s my daughter and I loved her!!!! I will never see her graduate college. I will never see her wear a wedding dress and hold her babies in her arms.
Other information about Megan: Symptoms - rash “severe stomach pains” “severe headaches/migraines” “extreme fatigue” vaginal bleeding.
Her mother Karen adds this additional comment: “We have a sixteen year old son who says, “life does not matter, what you do in life does not matter”. This is how this vaccine has changed our family’s life forever! Megan was 20, happy and healthy. She was attending College with a promise of marriage after graduation. She held her life in the palm of her hand. Now all this family has is a certificate with an unexplained cause of death on it. Something that was to protect her health may have taken her life. There needs to be an investigation right away before more young women are injured, or worse, die. Please do not allow another family to have to live the life we have been made to live.” (email address: snowflakes18454@yahoo.com) Santana G. Valdez
Santana G. Valdez (Albuquerque, New Mexico) She was beautiful, sweet, kind and always thinking of others first. She loved kids and was always surrounded by them. She helped teach catechism at San Martin de Porres Church. She had just graduated from Nuestros Valores High School. Because of a great personality, she had many friends. Not only was she my daughter, she was my best friend. We did everything together. I miss her and that beautiful smile of hers. She always believed in Angels and that they take care of us. Well, I know for sure she made it to Heaven because the morning of her rosary, a hummingbird was inside our house. It let us catch it and when we released it, it looked at all three of us and flew straight up into the sky. She had to come to let her Mom know that she was okay. She died August 31, 2007 at the tender age of 18 years old. She just went to bed normally and never woke up. Autopsy and toxicology show nothing. Her heart and liver were a little enlarged. Death certificate says she died of natural causes but inconclusive due to toxicology and autopsy reports.
Santana’s autopsy report did say that the pathologist had found the papillomatosis in her airways. Is there a possibility that Santana had Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) which causes wart-like growths in the airway passages caused by the human papilloma virus? These growths usually form on the vocal folds, causing a voice disorder. Just before my daughter’s death I noticed strange breathing and a whistling noise which is very significant. If this condition had been there months earlier I would have noticed this change in my daughter’s breathing noises and even swallowing difficulties. However, this is not the case, I only noticed it after her Gardasil vaccination and before she died. (Email address: liliancrunk@hotmail.com)
Jessica Ericzon 
Jessica Ericzon (Alexandria Bay, New York) (Died February 22, 2008 – age 17)
I guess I will start with Jessie's first Doctor's visit where we went because of Jessie's acne. She had heard that sometimes birth control pills did wonders for acne. So in April of 2007 we went to the Family doctor. At this appointment she was put on the birth control pill Yazmin. Her Doctor did mention the Gardasil vaccine and what it was for, but they didn't push it at all. Jessie and I decided that we would take the pamphlet home and read it first, before we made a decision. On July 16, 2007 we went back to the Doctor for a re-check on her progress with the birth control pill and her acne which was clearing up quite nicely. We decided then to go ahead with her first Gardasil vaccination. I thought I was doing the best for Jessie, I mean who wouldn't want to do everything they could to prevent any kind of cancer when it came to their kids. Side effects were discussed and it was the usual nausea, fever, headache, same as if you were to get a flu shot. If I had known at the time that there was even the slightest chance of death, I would have never allowed Jess to have the shot. There were no side effects after her first shot. We went in on September 17, 2007 for her second vaccination. The only complaint that she had was that it hurt to get the shot. I'm not sure when Jessie started complaining about her head hurting, plus she was always tired and her joints ached. She even felt dizzy once in a while. I did write in my diary on October 23, 2007 that she complained of a very severe headache. She spoke once in awhile of a spot on the back of her head that bothered her. She felt like it was a tumor, but I felt nothing when I checked. On November 20, 2007 I took her to the same family Doctor who prescribed her 2 previous vaccinations to check on why she could be having these headaches. He felt nothing and said it may be due to stress that she is having headaches and she was to take some Tylenol when needed. At no point in this conversation did side effects and Gardasil come up, it didn't occur to me or obviously the Doctor that Gardasil could have anything to do with it. After that visit she was still tired and her joints still ached and a few headaches here and there, I attributed the joint ache to Cheerleading as she was a base and did a lot of lifting. In February 2008, 18th-24th, Jessie was on a winter break from school, but she did take Distance Learning Classes thru the local community college. A few days that week Jess went to her school to practice pitching for the upcoming softball season. She loved to pitch and practiced as much as she could. On February 20, about 5pm Jess had her 3rd Gardasil vaccination and everything was fine until the night before she died, when Jess and I were sitting on the couch playing a Sudoku game on her laptop, Jessie said the spot on the back of her head hurt again. I told her to take a couple of Tylenol and hopefully she would feel better in the morning. At 9pm I kissed her goodnight and told her I loved her and went to bed. My other half Tim and I work at the same hospital so we left at about 5:10 that Friday morning February 22, 2008 and Jess was sleeping as usual. When we got home from work around 3:20 pm, I found Jessie dead on the bathroom floor. The shock to my body and brain are nothing I ever want to experience again. Although I relive them everyday of my life now. I see the blue of her eyes which were open slightly as if she were watching me as I lay on the bathroom floor with her knowing there was nothing I could do for her. When the troopers showed up Tim said I did mention the fact that Jessie had the Gardasil vaccination although I don't remember. I do remember telling someone about the pain in the back of her head before she went to bed. The next morning the Medical Examiner, Dr Livingstone called me to tell me they found no reason for Jessie's death. He said she was dead before she hit the floor. I do remember telling him about the 3rd Gardasil vaccination she had just had not 2 days ago. He said that he had not heard of any negative findings with Gardasil. After that Tim went home (as we were staying with my dad across the road) and Googled Gardasil. The information that came up was devastating to me. I felt I had killed my daughter. I will stop here because the rest is basically much grief and much research. Respectfully, Lisa Ericzon.
Lisa Ericzon would also like to add: “Losing your daughter at the age of 17 is indescribable. It is something that I will live with for the rest of my life. Knowing that it could have been prevented is a guilt I will carry also. Jessie was the All American teenager – happy, healthy, never did drugs or smoked. She was so full of everything life could offer her and did everything life would allow. She participated in all the sports and cheer leading in her school. Jess was an honor student and #8 in her class. I could go on and on because she was someone who I was ALWAYS proud to call my daughter. She was the best of the best and was on the road to becoming a success story in today’s world. Now she is gone and my life is empty without her.”
“Gardasil killed my daughter Jessie and it is my hope that Gardasil will end soon, so no other family has to suffer with losing their daughter.” (Email address: laknights7@westelcom.com)
Jasmin Soriat
Jasmin Soriat (Germany) 04.14.1988 - 10.12.2007 The 19-year-old succumbed to respiratory paralysis after she was vaccinated against HPV. “She was fit, happy and fun-loving. She never had any serious illnesses, had no lung disease, and she never smoked. There were also previously never problems with vaccinations.”
The last night Meticulously the parents have reconstructed the final hours of Jasmin: “She was at a concert a Spanish band, before midnight she was at a fast food restaurant, then drove with her flatmate home by taxi to Döbling. Two o’clock in the morning drank some tea. Her girlfriend came by to check up on her the next day but Jasmine, according to her friend who said, “She must have died a few hours earlier in her sleep.” (This was a rough translation from German)
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