Downstairs in the rehab wing of Markham Stouffville hospital, in a private room with a sunny window, lies Donna Hartlen, a young mother who is now partially paralyzed.

““Not a single doctor we’ve talked with will even remotely discuss that it’s the H1N1 shot,” marvels Hartlen. “They almost pretend they don’t hear you. They don’t want to alarm the public and they don’t want you to stir up trouble.”

So GBS patients like Hartlen and Gibson are on their own.

Right now, Quebec is the only province with a no-fault vaccine injury compensation program in place.

“It’s a horror story of how little Ontario will do to help patients that come down with this after the government promotes it so much,” complains her husband, Wayne Burke.

They have two little girls at home, just 4 and 2. He works full-time at Telus; she was a self-employed business systems analyst. With no family in Whitby, they flew in her parents from Nova Scotia, but the elderly couple can’t look after the kids indefinitely.

Meanwhile, Hartlen has been told it can take months – and up to a year – before she completely regains all movement. So how is the partially-paralyzed mom supposed to take care of two young children until then?”

CANADIAN SWINE FLU VACCINE REACTION REPORTING PAGE LOGS DEATHS, STROKES, PARALYSIS

“A Canadian website has received well over 100 reports of people who suffered severe adverse reactions to the swine flu jab, including deaths, after they set up a reaction reporting page.

The Toronto Sun on January 30th carried a story on the case of Donna Hartlen, a young mother who is now partially paralyzed, diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, after receiving the jab.

But Dee Nicholson says Donna Hartlen is just one case in many: she says that people took the jab without being properly informed of the risks and can sue on this basis.”