A wife of a gravely ill father-of-two slammed a Boston hospital for taking her husband off the heart transplant list because he's unvaccinated, stating they have been pushed into a 'corner' and 'pressured' to 'choose a shot that could kill him.'
Heather Dawson, wife of DJ Ferguson, 31, who has a hereditary heart condition that causes his lungs and heart to fill with blood and fluid, has slammed the Boston Brigham and Women's Hospital for denying a life-saving organ transplant to her husband because he is unvaccinated.
The hospital said it removed Ferguson from the donor list because all transplant recipients needed to be vaccinated in order to 'create both the best chance for successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation.'
Dawson said Ferguson was already 'high risk' for the vaccine due to his swollen heart. The mRNA vaccines have been found to cause temporary swelling of the heart and are typically seen in 'male adolescents and young adults,' according to the American Lung Association.
'He is at extremely high risk of sudden death if it does,' she wrote, of fears his heart could swell. 'We are literally in a corner right now. This is extremely time sensitive.
'We're being pressured to choose a shot that could kill him.
'This is not just a political issue. People need to have a choice!' she said.
DJ Ferguson, 31 (pictured) has a hereditary heart condition that causes his lungs and heart to fill with blood and fluid without intervention from intravenous medication. He has been denied a life-saving heart transplant because he refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19
Ferguson (right) is pictured with his wife, Heather Dawson, and their two children. His wife is now saying that the vaccine could cause more heart swelling and could cause his death and that the hospital has put them in a 'corner' to 'pressure' them to 'choose a shot that could kill him'
Ferguson's family is considering moving him to another hospital, but he may not be able to be moved in his condition
'After almost 50 days in the hospital with no answers, DJ was finally seen by some of the best cardiac specialists last week,' Dawson updated on GoFundMe.
'After running countless tests and scans we learned that DJ is now in severe end stage heart failure, meaning that he is going to need a heart transplant to live.
'On top of the heart failure his heart is extremely swollen and dilated. Which puts him at high risk of cardiac arrest,' she said. 'The bad news is that the transplant board will not actively list him due to his vaccination status.'
However, Ferguson's father, David, said earlier that getting vaccinated is 'kind of against his basic principles' and that his son 'doesn't believe in it.'
'I think my boy is fighting pretty damn courageously and he has integrity and principles he really believes in and that
