Seventeen years old and 6’9″ tall, Utah high school basketball player Everest Romney was perfectly healthy before he went and got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine with his mom.

According to his mom, Cherie Romney, he got the Pfizer vaccine April 21, reported a local news station. That night he started to feel swelling and pain in his neck. Days later he got extreme migraines, so she took him to the emergency room.

She said before the shot, he was 100 percent healthy, playing and practicing basketball.

“There was nothing wrong with him. Nothing. He didn’t have a sore throat (or) any injury,” said Cherie Romney. “If I had known, I would have never [gotten the shot], but so many people have and they have had no problems. I would tell everyone, and I’m trying to tell myself, we can only make the decisions with the information we have at the time. There has been a lot of vaccines given and there has been a lot of good, so it’s an individual decision.”

An update on his condition reads in part:

His brain swelling continues but they are hopeful this will improve and the migraines will lessen within 6 weeks or even a month. His vision does not appear to have been affected long-term and follow up appointments will be needed to continue to verify that. He will be monitored closely for the next few months but early indications and tests lend them to cautiously believe his prognosis is very very good, including returning to basketball!!!!

We have a tough road ahead yet but are beginning to possibly see light at the end of the tunnel. We want to express our love and immense gratitude to all of you for your love and support, your prayers and fasting on behalf of Everest and your support of our family during this almost unbearable time. I do not think we could have gotten to this point so quickly without your prayers, and I do not want to think about having had to face this alone – forever we will be grateful for our Smith family, our Corner Canyon basketball family, our church and the community of Draper as well as the greater basketball community’s love and support. Words cannot express our thanks as so many of you continue to uplift and even carry us.

To date there have been many people developing blood clots after the COVID vaccines. According to openvaers.com there have been nearly 5,000 reports of blood clot and stroke submitted to VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Click here to learn what that is and how to do a search.