A daughter’s wedding, and all that goes with it, should be about pure joy and celebration. Nothing less.
Yet one New Jersey mother, because of New York City’s COVID vaccine mandates that began last summer, found herself enduring a medical emergency she never imagined.
Kathleen Zemlachenko, 63, of Raritan Township, N.J., had chosen not to take the COVID-19 vaccine after consulting with her doctor. Fit and active, Zemlachenko had already tested positive for COVID in January 2021. She had very high antibody levels to prove it.
“I had 3,000 times the antibodies that would have shown somebody as having a positive antibody response,” she said.
Zemlachenko did not feel comfortable getting vaccinated until she had more information about the potential side effects for those who had antibodies to the virus.
But last year, “after New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s vaccine mandates came out, I really had no choice,” Zemlachenko said sadly.
In mid-August 2021, DeBlasio announced his “Key to NYC” vaccine mandate, which required proof of vaccine for patrons who wanted to visit certain Big Apple establishments.
Unless Zemlachenko took the vaccine, it seemed highly probable that she would not be allowed to join her daughter, Emily, the youngest of her five children (she has three daughters and two sons) for a wedding-dress fitting experience for mother and daughter at a Manhattan shop ahead of Emily’s November 2021 wedding.
Zemlachenko felt coerced into a difficult decision. The path she chose wound up putting her life in jeopardy.
On August 5, 2021, Zemlachenko received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which would give her enough cushion ahead of the mother-daughter dress fitting to be considered “fully vaccinated.”
But two days after getting the COVID vaccine, Zemlachenko developed a blazing headache and very high blood pressure.
She was ill enough to land in the emergency room at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J. Her blood-pressure reading was 40 points above her normal readings.
She and her doctors attributed the episode directly to the vaccine.
After the scary episode, Zemlachenko was put on medication to help address potentially dangerous hypertension.
Her usual work schedule, she runs a health care consulting business, was disrupted due to multiple trips to the doctor. Her condition resolved eventually, to the relief of her family and friends.
“I think she felt guilty” about what happened, Zemlachenko said of daughter Emily’s reaction to the medical emergency.
But Zemlachenko emphasized that New York City’s vaccine mandate and the threats around it are what made her get the jab. The family was simply trying to do their best to follow the rules, with unexpected consequences.
Zemlachenko is trained as a medical technologist.
For years she worked in microbiology in a clinical lab, serving as product director for infectious disease testing at Quest Diagnostics. Given this background, Zemlachenko knows a lot about infectious diseases like COVID.
Zemlachenko told Fox News Digital that she recommends everyone make their own personal decisions about vaccines, in consultation with their doctors.
For example, she said she would advise someone she knows, who has asthma, to get the COVID vaccine, as this person is at higher risk from the respiratory virus.
So she’s not against vaccines in general.
Kathleen Zemlachenko gets a flu shot every year, she said.
She just feels that taking the COVID vaccine should be a personal choice and not one mandated by a government authority.
I have asthma but I will never take the poison shots. There was a recent post of Canada’s trudeau getting the shot but being a medical professional myself could see that there was no fluid in the syringe and the plunger was seated meaning he got nothing. Any politician getting the jab more than likely got saline. They are only giving the poison to non elites. Even doctors and nurses are getting poison. Two dear friends of mine died recently after the shot, one being an ER worker.
DON’T TAKE THE SHOTS, otherwise, you will die.
did you notice when Biden and company got their shots they pinched the skin and didn’t even insert the needle it was done on the other side of the pinch into a gauze I played any of those videos claiming they got their shots on a 70-inch display and saw a lot more detail at 4k
So, I’m not alone. I decided to get the first of the series of COVID-19 vaccinations in May 2021. I chose to have the Moderna that my doctor’s office was administering at that time. I was very relaxed about getting it since my husband and even my 90-year-old mother with heart disease and other health problems had the same vaccine and had no problems with it at all. I received the injection and went to the waiting area to wait 15 minutes and was sending my husband and text to let him know I got it and would be leaving to go pick up breakfast for my mother when I left. I didn’t even finish the text when I felt like someone poured something over my head and down the rest of my body and I felt lightheaded and like I was getting numb all over and my face was tingling. I called for the nurse, and she had me in a chair with my feet up and checking my blood pressure which was extremely high. My doctor was called into the room, and she brushed it off to the fact that I had not eaten breakfast and fussed at me for not taking the bp pill that morning, which I don’t usually take anyway. Yet, just 15 minutes prior to that my blood pressure was perfect in her exam room. My heart was pounding by the time she came in, but I did everything I could to remain calm and not get scared about it. I am a very relaxed kind of person and don’t let things excite me and I knew I was not nervous at all about getting the injection. Needless to say, I have refused to get a second vaccine. After reading this article, I will not get another vaccine and will look for a place to go have myself checked to see if I have the antibodies.
My son is getting arrived in Ca and I was so worried that I would not get to be there because I told him I wasn’t getting it. I tried to convince them to have it in Fl or our state where it’s not required but she’s from Ca. I hope they don’t require it there because I will not get it and will find it hard to forgive since they knew our whole families view on it. I’m sorry but no event is worth death.