Sheila Annette Lewis is mother of four, and grandmother of two who requires a life-saving organ transplant but is being denied one for reasons which have no medical validity. She lives in Alberta, and prior to the terminal illness she was diagnosed with in 2019, worked with a cleaning business 8-12 hour days to provide for her family, always putting her children before herself.

In 2020, Sheila Annette was placed on the waitlist for a donor organ, and in 2021, was informed that she had to be vaccinated against Covid 19 as a new requirement for transplantation. Having had C19 herself twice, she asked her doctors repeatedly for a C19 antibody test, but they refused. Expecting she had antibodies to C19 and therefore not wanting to subject herself to an unnecessary vaccination which had never been tested on people with her condition, Sheila Annette declined to take the C19 vaccinations and her doctors proceeded to move her to ‘inactive’ status. She then arranged privately to have C19 antibody testing and was found to have “extremely high” levels of antibodies to C19- higher than many people vaccinated against it. Her doctors, however, continue to refuse to provide Sheila Annette the transplant she needs, still insisting she must be vaccinated. Notably, the Alberta Transplant Program has recently dispensed with C19 vaccination as a requirement for kidney transplantation, and in court, a judge has acknowledged that previous infection with chicken pox, exempts transplant patients from requiring varicella vaccination.

Sheila Annette's case is subject to a court-imposed gag order which is intended to protect her doctors from reprisal for their decision to deny her a transplant, so we cannot name them, their hospital or the the organ she requires.

With the help of a few dedicated friends, Sheila Annette has now found a hospital in the US that does not require the C19 vaccination for its transplant patients. The testing alone is estimated to cost about $100,000 CAD, and the surgery, many hundreds of thousands dollars more. As Sheila Annette’s friends and family, we appeal to you for prayers for her - that she get her life- saving transplant - and, for a financial donation toward the cost of upcoming testing and treatment in the US. Thank you very much for your consideration and your help.

The Lewis family, and friends of Sheila Annette’s.

This campaign is unpublished.

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