Nearly one year after Julian Scholefield suffered a rare neurological condition that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the Summerland, B.C., man is waiting for acknowledgement his injury was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to Scholefield, his paralysis came over the course of a few hours on July 25, 2021, just 12 days after he received his second dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Scholefield, 45, first noticed a tingling sensation in his left leg while he was out boating on Okanagan Lake with his family, he said.

“Rather than getting better, it actually progressed worse and went from being just in the left leg to the right leg as well,”