Lisa Watson
Day 4 · September 11, 2026 · 0:19:40
Key points Lisa Watson, now 60, worked for the Canada Revenue Agency and had just bought an acreage to start a hobby farm; her doctors and the support program agree she is vaccine injured. She testifies she and her family had decided against the vaccine but she took a single Pfizer shot on June 5, 2021, largely so her high-school daughter could stay in school. She says that 12 days later she felt her left arm go weak, believed she was having a stroke, and was rushed to hospital. At hospital she lost use of her hand, experienced violent leg spasms, and after an MRI in Charlottetown was diagnosed with transverse myelitis. She describes a paradox: paralysis on her left side where she retained all feeling, and mobility on her right side where she lost sensation, requiring her to relearn to walk. She spent about ten weeks in hospital, now uses a walker and has drop foot, and a video of her relearning to walk was shown. She says chief medical officer Dr. Heather Morrison denied her exemption request and recommended AstraZeneca despite her AFib, and mourns that her granddaughters won't remember who she was before.
Speaker 3
0:02 So, our next witness is Lisa Watson. 0:06 And Lisa, will you take the Bible in your hand, please? 0:18 Lisa Watson, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Speaker 3
0:31 And 0:32 Before I introduce you to the inquiry, I'll just let the inquiry know that this witness, her doctors have conclusively found that it's vaccine injury, including the vaccine, even the vaccine injury support program agrees that she's vaccine injured. 0:49 Lisa, you are 60, which means you were 55 at the time of what we're going to speak about. 0:56 You've got three adult children. 0:59 You worked for the 1:01 Canada Revenue Agency, and nobody's going to hold that against you there. 1:06 Just kidding. 1:07 But you were in rebates. 1:09 And you had just purchased an acreage. Speaker 3
1:13 And you were just setting up a hobby farm. 1:16 You guys were in the process of getting chickens. 1:18 And this is a high work thing, getting an acreage and setting up a hobby farm. 1:23 Your health was good. Speaker 3
1:26 You worked, you walked, you'd walk about three to six kilometers three times a week. 1:31 Yes. 1:32 You cooked with the family, you played darts, horseshoes, quadded, fished. 1:38 You loved going to the beach and collecting what is sea glass. 1:41 And even though you've tried to explain that to me, I still don't understand what it is. 1:46 But that changed. Speaker 2
1:48 Yes, it did. Speaker 3
1:50 On June 5th, 2021, 1:54 you took your first and only vaccine, a Pfizer vaccine. 1:59 Can you share with us what happened? Speaker 2
2:01 Sure. 2:04 Well, we, we as a family decided we were not going to get the vaccines. 2:12 They were too new and we had other vaccines, but this one we didn't want to do. 2:19 So 2:21 But at that time, we still had our youngest daughter in high school. 2:26 And I wasn't able, wouldn't be able to go back to work if I didn't do it. 2:34 My husband worked traveling back and forth to the States and back. 2:43 So for mostly for my daughter's sake, I decided to do this with her. 2:51 And so we went on June 5th and walked in. 2:58 And she said, Mom, she said, I have a bad feeling about this. 3:02 I said, what could possibly go wrong? 3:05 This was just a needle, right? 3:08 We're fine. 3:10 We went in. 3:11 We got our shots. 3:13 Then they handed us a 3:15 little piece of paper and said, if you have any issues, you may have flu-like symptoms. 3:21 If anything gets too serious, call. 3:26 We came home. 3:27 My husband and I went quadding for the day. 3:30 Felt fine. 3:31 I didn't have a sore arm. 3:32 There was nothing. 3:35 Twelve days later, I had an appointment in Summerside, so we went in. 3:43 And we were sitting there a little early, so my daughter was with me. 3:47 And we were just sitting in the truck, and I was talking to my husband on the phone. 3:53 And I felt my left arm go weak, noticeably weak. 4:02 And I said to him, he said, well, just sit. 4:05 Maybe it'll pass. 4:06 And I sat, and it wasn't passing. Speaker 5
4:13 And, uh, I said, I think I'm having a stroke. Speaker 2
4:24 So, um, I got out of the truck and, uh, walked around and let my daughter drive me to the hospital, which was just a couple minutes away. 4:36 And, um, 4:39 We went in, and they triaged me, and they brought me right in, thinking I might have been having a heart attack, a stroke, something. 4:49 And so I stayed there. 4:54 They did blood work. 4:55 They hooked me up to the machines. 4:59 They said, I'm sorry, Mrs. Watson, but it's really busy right now. 5:03 Could you just go sit back out in the... 5:07 waiting room and it was it was very busy so i sat there and as oh maybe two minutes passed and uh this tightening around the middle came across me that like somebody was tightening a belt Speaker 5
5:38 So she got up, she went, I got help. Speaker 2
5:43 And she said, I think my mother's having a heart attack. 5:46 Can you please help her? 5:49 So I went in and they took me right down to get a CT scan. 6:00 And I came back up and I was sitting up, I believe. 6:08 and I was dry, and I took another glass of bottled water and I put it in my hand to open it, and when I put it in my hand, it fell. 6:18 And I lost use of my hand. 6:22 And they said, oh my gosh, she's having a stroke, even though my facial, everything was fine. 6:34 Within probably 6:37 a minute, my left leg started spasming, not spasming, Charlie horsing. 6:43 It was just, it was violent. 6:47 The, and it would last, oh, maybe a minute and a half to two minutes. 6:56 And then it would stop. 6:57 And when that happened, the nurse, I remember she was like, that's not a stroke we need. 7:02 And the doctor came in, I believe I, there was, 7:06 There was a lot of people around me, but they didn't have an MRI machine in Summerside. 7:12 So they had to take them by ambulance to Charlottetown because they knew it wasn't a stroke then. 7:20 I said, this isn't a stroke. 7:21 We don't know what it is. 7:23 So down we went. 7:27 And they put me in, took me in for an MRI. 7:32 And I don't, 7:34 have any timelines because I was, it's all blur. 7:39 And it was then too. 7:40 But when I came back to a room, my daughter was there. 7:49 My brother came in, my husband was away. 7:53 And my sister-in-law, the neurologist finally came in and he said, well, he said, you know, it's not a stroke. 8:03 And we were quite, I was relieved. 8:05 And he said, well, you know, too relieved. 8:10 He said, it's transverse myelitis. 8:13 And we really don't know what we're dealing with because we don't see it a whole lot. 8:20 So they put me on a couple different, I have, I'm a brain fog. 8:31 Oh, you don't have to. 8:32 Words of heaven. 8:33 I know, my medications. 8:36 But they did put me on basically muscle relaxers to help with that, for the spasms. Speaker 3
8:44 But you still have the spasms to this day. Speaker 2
8:46 Oh, absolutely. Speaker 3
8:48 And you also still have that tightening around your midsection. Speaker 2
8:52 Yes, I do. 8:54 Well, I was just on the one medication in the hospital, whatever it is. 9:01 one little pill and it wasn't enough so after i came home and then i went to see the neurologist he and told him that it wasn't enough he gave me another gabapentin so and then basically you became a bit of a paradox didn't you because you had your left side Speaker 3
9:26 You lost movement. Speaker 2
9:27 Well, I remember the one thing I do remember when I got to the hospital before I left Summerside, I needed to use the washroom and I was able to get up and use the washroom. 9:38 When I got to Charlottetown, which is an hour and a half, roughly, and I had to use the washroom again, I couldn't walk. 9:51 I lost all mobility. 9:55 In my legs, I couldn't walk at all. 10:00 And I had to learn that all again. 10:04 And then we realized when I was there in physio, I was in the hospital for 10 weeks in Charlottetown. 10:14 And that I have all feeling on the left side of my body. 10:20 And on the right side of my body, I have no... 10:26 sensations, hot or cold, pain. 10:30 I can feel if somebody pushes on it. Speaker 3
10:33 And that was the paradox. 10:35 So you were paralyzed on the left side, but you could feel everything. Speaker 2
10:39 Oh, yeah, I could feel everything. Speaker 3
10:40 You could move the right side, but you couldn't feel anything. Speaker 2
10:42 Which was really unnerving because that was part of the problem with me learning to walk because I couldn't feel. Speaker 3
10:50 Yeah, let's show up. 10:51 David, do you want to pull up? 10:52 We have the video. 10:54 And this is you learning to walk. Speaker 2
10:57 I don't think anybody in my family has seen this. 11:00 I've never shared it, but you go right ahead. 11:03 I gave it to you. Speaker 3
11:04 So there you go. 11:04 It'll be a learning journey for your husband here. 11:09 So David, yeah, pull up that video for us. Speaker 6
11:16 It's 49. 11:17 She's witness 49. 11:29 Oh, I'm sorry, it's 50. 11:31 We're at Lisa Watson. Speaker 3
11:43 So while David's doing that, let's talk about kind of where you are today. Speaker 2
11:52 Well, if you've seen me walk around the halls, I do use a walker. 11:59 I came home in a wheelchair, but I quickly got rid of that and used the walker around the house. Speaker 6
12:17 So you can't walk without a walker? Speaker 2
12:20 No. 12:21 If I hang on to walls or if I hang on to, you know, I tried to use a cane, but it's just too unstable for me. 12:32 Because I also have now dropped foot. 12:35 That was when these spasms were happening. 12:40 They would straighten my foot out and I lost all movement in my left foot. Speaker 3
12:46 I think we're ready for that. Speaker 6
12:47 They do know. Speaker 2
12:54 Thank you for a couple weeks of me in physio. Speaker 3
13:41 So this is a video of you basically learning to walk with a walker. Speaker 2
13:46 Like I said, that was about two weeks after. 13:49 I had a brace on to hold my foot up. 13:58 And the one I got after, well, even that one, I broke my ankle years ago, so I have... 14:06 pins and plates. 14:08 So it's very uncomfortable to wear that. 14:11 It hurts because I have all feeling in that side of my body. Speaker 3
14:21 Right. 14:21 And so, I mean, this is, this is really you becoming completely disabled and needing to be hospitalized. Speaker 3
14:31 And the chief medical officer 14:36 Dr. Heather Morrison, uh, wanted you to get a second shot. Speaker 2
14:41 Absolutely. 14:42 My doctor wanted, um, my family doctor was amazing. 14:48 And, um, he sent off, uh, an exemption. Speaker 3
14:54 A request for an exemption. 14:56 Because you had to apply to the chief medical officer. Speaker 2
14:58 Yes. 15:00 And she, um, 15:03 refused that, saying that, I forget the wording right now, but basically she doesn't have to get the Pfizer vaccine, but we strongly recommend her have, and for him to discuss with me the benefits of getting the AstraZeneca one. 15:27 And the funny thing was, that was one for blood clots that they were pulling 15:34 And I have AFib. 15:39 So it certainly didn't make sense. Speaker 3
15:42 Right, because it's contraindicated. Speaker 6
15:46 What has been the most difficult part of this? Speaker 2
15:56 Not being able to be who I was. 16:00 Not looking at myself and not seeing me. 16:03 as far as I liked to entertain. 16:10 I always was the one that would cook the big dinners and have the... 16:18 But even more than that, I have five granddaughters that are all fairly young. 16:27 And not one of them will remember who I was before this vaccine Speaker 5
16:38 they do not know who I am or who I was. Speaker 2
16:44 And I try not to be that person that lets it defy who I am. 16:53 I will not allow this to defy who I am. 16:56 But sometimes it's hard. 16:59 Thank God I have a husband that's as supportive 17:06 as he is, and the kids have been amazing. 17:20 I guess I'm disappointed. 17:22 I'm disappointed in, we wanted this little hobby farm. 17:27 And the day, a couple of days before I bought my first shipment 17:34 little baby chickens came in. 17:37 And I didn't get to raise them. 17:42 You know, I didn't get to go collect the barn or the eggs or the, and everything else just died with it. 17:52 I guess it just, it didn't break my spirit. 17:56 My spirit will not be broken. 18:00 But it took, it did take something from me. 18:03 Took something from my husband. 18:04 You know, our life is not how we envisioned. 18:11 He had to stop his work, doing what he did to be home closer. 18:17 My daughter had to move back. 18:21 And she lived in Alberta. 18:24 So, you know, it changed all of our lives drastically. Speaker 5
18:30 And it's disappointing. Speaker 1
18:37 Lisa, thank you so much. 18:39 That was going to be my question in terms of, I know you've got lots of support at home. Speaker 1
18:44 And I was going to ask you how that made you feel about the future. 18:49 And you just sort of touched on it. 18:50 You just were explaining that some of the things you'd hoped and aspired for has changed as a result of that. 18:56 Did you want to add anything else to that? Speaker 2
18:59 I don't think so. 19:01 I do want to thank you for validating us, allowing us, 19:09 So I didn't know there was so many. 19:13 You know, when this first happened, I knew there was the odd one. 19:18 And you just feel that you're a one-off. 19:22 Took one for the team. 19:24 That's what I would tell people. 19:26 And, yeah, it's a lot. 19:30 And this has been very helpful. Speaker 6
19:35 Thank you. 19:36 Thank you. 19:36 Thank you very much.