Age: 72.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Loss of personal independence in daily activities, Magnetic resonance imaging head abnormal, Mental impairment, Muscular weakness, Myocardial infarction
Clinical narrative: Patient received her 1st dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on March 08, 2021. About a week later she started complaining of feeling fatigued, confused, and disoriented some days. These symptoms progressively got worse over the next 3 months. She received her 2nd dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on April 05, 2021. A week later she mentioned waking up more disoriented in the mornings and would look at her hands and think to herself, "Who's hands are these?" She said she felt like she wasn't in her right mind. Soon after this she felt she couldn't go to the grocery store alone or drive because she might get lost. She never had symptoms of Dementia prior to March 2021. On May 10, 2021 I noticed she was moving slower and using walls to guide her through her home as she walked. She mentioned she felt more fatigued at this time. On the weekend of May 21, 2021 we took a trip for her birthday and she was mentioning how it was a struggle for her to pack for the trip because she couldn't think clearly and had made a mess in her room trying to find her clothes. She was a very tidy & organized person, so this was very unusual. A week after the trip she mentioned losing some strength in her left leg and needing to lean on walls as she walked through her home. On June 4, 2021 the weakness got worse and she mentioned she felt more "off" and wanted to shower before heading to the hospital to be evaluated - when she got out of the shower she completely lost strength in her left leg and fell to the ground, but was conscious. She was taken to Hospital where a CT scan was done that showed brain swelling and a mass. She was then transported to Medical Center where an MRI was done, confirming the swelling and 4cm mass - doctors there believed it could be a Glioblastoma and mentioned it is very aggressive.  When asked if the vaccine may have caused this, we were quickly dismissed and told there could be no connection at all. After further research we found that GBM (Glioblastoma) could grow as quickly as .5mm per day and when calculating the time between her 1st dose and her hospitalization (approx. 90 days) it equated to 4.5cm, her mass was 4cm. Even if there was a mass there before her vaccine, there is reason to believe it may have been aggravated by the vaccine.   Surgery was suggested, but after 4 days she expressed that she wanted to opt out of the surgery and pursue a second opinion or natural treatments. She was discharged on  June 9, 2021 and taken home with medication. She was more alert and lively at home - able to converse and move around with assistance, but did not have strength in her left leg and was losing more strength in her left arm. On June 13, 2021 she suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance. CPR was performed in the ambulance and she was taken to Hospital where they stabilized her but she never regained consciousness. She was taken home for Hospice on June  16, 2021 and passed away on June 19, 2021.