Age: 46.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: FLU3
Symptoms: Influenza like illness, Intensive care, Lumbar puncture, Malaise, Mechanical ventilation
Clinical narrative: I was in orientation for employment as a Registered Nurse. I was informed during the orientation process that I was required to receive a flu vaccination. I informed the infection control nurse who was in charge of that part of the presentation in orientation that the flu shot makes me sick. That twice before it had caused me have a fever, chills, vomiting, achiness, generally flu like symptoms. I was informed that it cannot cause flu because it is a dead virus and informed that I was required to have the vaccine in order to be involved in patient care. On October 8, 2014, I received the vaccine on my P.M. shift during my job orientation as it was being offered in house. Two hours after receiving the injection I began to vomit profusely and reported this to my preceptor who instructed me to call the supervisor. The supervisor then instructed me to go home due to the continued vomiting. While driving myself home (37 minutes/30.3 miles) I had to stop 6 times to vomit. This was a Wednesday and I continued vomiting and having other flu-like symptoms (achy,  chills,  weakness,  and  a  frontal  headache)  throughout  the  week.  I  would  lie  in  bed  and  then  try  to get up which would more often than not result in more vomiting and always achiness and ill feeling. According to my belief I am supposed to go before the elders of my church for prayer. I feared that if I didn't return to work soon I would lose my newly acquired job and was scheduled to work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So I went to my church on Sunday with that express purpose in mind. During church service the headache extended also to the occipital region of my head and became increasingly intense and unbearable. I removed myself from the sanctuary, fell to the floor outside in the hallway and began vomiting and crying out in pain and because suddenly the light was hurting my eyes tremendously and I was very sensitive to sound. Our  Pastor called the ambulance and I was taken to the  hospital. I was sent home with nausea/vomiting medication and told to follow up with my primary care physician. The medication was ineffective and I continued with the same symptoms and followed up with my Primary Care Physician on 10/16 who ordered an MRA and MRI of my head which were scheduled for 10/23. I returned to church on 10/19 again with the express purpose of getting much needed prayer for a condition that was not being treated effectively by the medical profession and was very concerning. I ended up out in the yard vomiting and laying in the cold grass with the same symptoms listed above (extreme pain in the back of my head, vomiting, extreme sensitivity to sound and light). After a significant period of time when I felt able to move, a friend drove me home where my husband took me again to the E.R. They were unable to perform an MRI or CT due to some mechanical malfunction (as near as I can remember) so they instructed me to keep my existing appointment for MRI/MRA and they   [Due to memory limitations, the remainder of this text could not be compared.]   they changed my medication and sent me home. Then on 10/22 my husband again took me to the E. R. Twice. I am not certain what his reasoning was the first time but the second time it was because I was running into walls and was generally disoriented, combative, confused, and he said when he looked into my eyes I "wasn't there". I have no memory after that until several days later. They tell me that I was taken to the ICU where I was on a ventilator and treated for two cerebral hemorrhages and a stroke. My mother (an ICU nurse for many years) tells me I was posturing when I was leaving the hospital preparing for transfer to another location. My husband had stopped there because he was terrified I wouldn't make it to a specific location. After that I then became unresponsive.