Up until January 2021, Maddie de Garay was a healthy and vibrant 12-year-old. She was a typical pre-teen who loved dancing and spending time with her friends. Maddie’s life changed forever when she received her second dose of the Pfizer covid vaccine on January 20th 2021 while participating in the trial for 12-15-year-olds at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.  

In less than 24 hours of her second dose, Maddie had a severe systemic adverse reaction.  She developed crippling body pain, her fingers and toes ice cold and turned white and she said she felt like someone was “ripping her heart out though her neck.”  

A life filled with soccer games, playing with friends, and school was replaced with 11 ER trips resulting in 4 hospital admissions totaling more than 65 days.  Maddie has suffered numerous systemic injuries, it has been a year and she is still in a wheelchair, receives all her nutrition and medicine through a feeding tube, cannot control her neck, has constant stomach, back, neck and body pain, vision problems, tinnitus, can’t feel from the waist down, allergic reactions, dysautonomia and more. Worse yet, she is not improving. In fact, her condition is declining. 

After reporting everything to the Pfizer clinical trial Principal Investigator and being brushed aside, we started documenting every detail of Maddie’s injury.  Cincinnati Children’s first tried to treat Maddie as “a mental patient,” telling us it was anxiety and it was all in Maddie’s head. Pfizer listed her traumatic systemic adverse reaction as “functional abdominal pain” when reporting to the FDA.  A day before Pfizer submitted their request for emergency approval for the covid vaccine for 12-15-year-olds and before necessary testing was done, they put Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) as a diagnosis in her chart.

It’s been over a year, time and options are running out for Maddie.  I can’t even explain how hard it is to see your child suffer while watching doctor after doctor refuse to help her.  We have exhausted all options available through insurance. Pfizer has zero financial obligation for Maddie’s injury and they have not offered any assistance.  She needs treatment that our insurance will not cover and we cannot afford out of pocket.  We didn’t want to ask for help unless we absolutely needed it and now is that time.  Despite all that she has been through, she has remained strong and optimistic.  We trust God and know that he will heal Maddie, he chose her for a reason and will continue to give her strength.

All donations will go towards:

• Treatment, medication and testing that Maddie desperately needs that insurance won’t cover

• Travel and lodging for treatment out of state (we are doing as much as we can via telehealth)

• Essential modifications to our home that Maddie desperately needs so it is wheelchair-friendly, she has some level of independence and most importantly she is safe (ADA approved ramp into house, she can’t wheel her in herself in our out of her bedroom over the carpet, she has no neck control which is difficult for us and painful for her in the shower and during transfers)

• Home Health Care (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and IV fluids) - everyone we have called will not treat adolescents and Cincinnati Children’s is no longer an option  

Donations raised beyond the needs of medical expenses for Maddie de Garay, will be donated to the React-CARE fund which is a 501c3 organization made by the vaccine injured, for the vaccine injured where every dollar donated goes to help pay for medical expenses for those injured by the Covid vaccines. 

Thank you so much for your prayers and support for Maddie’s recovery, we couldn't have made it this far without them.

More information and updates on Maddie’s story are available below, we will not stop talking until Maddie is better and Pfizer provides informed consent on their covid vaccines:

• Stephanie de Garay’s Facebook page where all updates on Maddie are made available to the public and shareable 
• Do You Know About Maddie de Garay? - by Janine Bandcroft gives a summary of what’s posted on Stephanie’s Facebook page and other articles
• The Vaccine-Injured and Their Fight for Treatment, Transparency—Trial Participants Maddie and Stephanie de Garay and Brianne Dressen where Maddie shares her story in her own words on January 27, 2022 with Epoch Times, Jan Jekielek
• Senator Ron Johnson’s News Conference in Milwaukee, WI on June 28, 2021 where Stephanie shares Maddie’s story.
• Maddie’s Story on Real Not Rare which also includes Stephanie and Maddie’s Interview with Ken Reuttger’s (C19VaxReactions) in June 2021 and Stephanie’s Capital Speech and Rally Speech from November 2, 2021 in Washington, DC
• After Initially Accepting 30 Second TV Ad Featuring 13 Yr.-Old, Maddie de Garay, Comcast Attorneys Pull it at Last Minute with Timeline of Ad Rejection, 30 Second TV Ad and supporting documents provided to Comcast with our permission for substantiation.
• The Curious Case of Maddie de Garay - we don’t know who wrote this article but feel it is important to share