Age: 60.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19-2
Symptoms: Gait disturbance, Gait inability, Hemiplegia, Hyperhidrosis, Hypoaesthesia
Clinical narrative: It was Monday 03/13/2023. By 06:30 in the morning, I woke up. I was in bed and my arm was numb and tingling. I felt a little dizzy. I proceeded to fix myself for the day: shaving brushing my teeth, taking a shower. In the shower, I noticed I was losing strength on the left side and it was hard for me to keep my balance. I didn't know I was losing strength, but it was hard to keep my balance and I noticed I was leaning towards the left. I proceeded drying myself and dressing up. By that time, it was more difficult for me to stay upright. By the time I had to tie my shoes, I went to the floor twice, but I was able to grab the board of the bed and get off the floor and stand up again. I made a big effort to stand up and go lay with my hands over the wall so I could open my bedroom door. As I opened the door, the lady of the house was in the kitchen. She saw me sweating profusely and I was very pale. She asked me what happened and when I wanted to talk, I was slurring my words and I think I told her that I couldn't stay up. Then she called her husband. From 06:30 to when we left the house, it took me a long time because I didn't have the strength or balance to do it normally. It was nearing 08:00 by this time. Her husband comes out and someone had mentioned maybe it was stroke. He went back to the bedroom and got ready in 30 seconds and he said let's go. I asked where are we going and he said the hospital. I said I just wanted to sit in the living room but he helped me get to the car. He dragged me a little by little because I couldn't walk. The hospital was 5 to 7 minutes from the house and they took me to the emergency room. They brought a wheel chair out and they brought me in. They yelled emergency stroke and I had several people around me doing different things. I stayed in the ER for 2 to 3 hours. I was moved to the 2nd floor. By that time, since I was in the ER, my whole left arm and leg did not move at all. I could not talk properly and I was paralyzed on the left side. I stayed there from Monday to Thursday afternoon by the end of the day. They moved me to the third floor at this time which was the rehab unit. After the 2nd day, I began moving my fingers, and with a lot of difficulty, I was able to move my arm a little bit. They saw I had some improvement. I was able to raise my leg a little bit, but I was unable to move my foot and fingers at all. They saw this movement and they said I was ready for rehab. Every day in rehab, I was having therapy for speech, occupational therapy to reactivate my fingers. It was very effective. I had 3 or 4 therapies every day. Sometimes twice occupational, sometimes twice physical therapy, and sometimes speech therapy. Sometimes I'd do walk exercises, doing exercises in the bed. Little by little I would use the walker. I had supervision for everything. I also had a heart monitor. When I was in rehab, I didn't have that anymore. Little by little, I was recovering. To this day, I'm not fully recovered yet. I do walk with a limp now. But I did do everything the hospital had me do. I was able to do simple movements, but the precision movements were difficult in the beginning when I was in the hospital. On Friday 03/31, I was discharged in the afternoon. It was almost 3 weeks. After I went home, I now have medications. I now check my blood sugar and blood pressure daily. I now take Aspirin 81 mg in the morning. I am also taking Losartan Potassium 50mg daily in the morning and Famotidine 20mg in the morning. All of these are at 06:00AM. Amlodipine Byselate 5mg in the morning as well. I take Docusate Sodium 100mg one in the morning and evening. At night I take Atorvastatin 40mg with that Docusate Sodium.   One to two weeks after the vaccination, I did have two incidences of both arms and both legs tingling and numbness about 3 days apart. I did also feel dizzy during the time but these instances did go away and never occurred again. I'm not sure if this is in relation to the vaccine, or this most recent health event. I'm just not sure.