A 34-year-old Tennessee mother of two has undergone a dozen surgeries in the past four years to replace bones that doctors say were dying.
A condition they believe may have been triggered by a combination of her COVID-19 infection and subsequent vaccination.
Brittany Burnette, a former nursing home director, was among the first in her community to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021.
Driven by a sense of duty to protect her patients, she took the vaccine despite already recovering from a COVID infection in late 2020.
What followed, she says, was a cascade of medical complications that changed her life completely.