Age: 73.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Wound complication
Clinical narrative: Reprter Nov 21, 2021, 11:45 PM to info  My father, was a heart patient who had, for several years, maintained a balance between heart failure and stage 4 kidney failure. After receiving the 2nd Moderna shot, patient experienced strange symptoms including increased heart arrhythmia and reduced kidney function. Additionally, he reported a change in metabolism wherein his need for overnight insulin reduced and his ability to predict his insulin needs was thrown off. He described experiencing shortness of breath in the night, as well.   Not long after these symptoms began, he experienced skin weeping, a symptom of reduced kidney function. He assumed it was a vascular issue and tried soaking his feet, but due to diabetic neuropathy and failure to check the water temperature, he severely burned them (3rd degree.) He was admitted to hospital to treat the burns on his feet. While he was there, they noted some disturbing heart and kidney symptoms indicating his condition had worsened in comparison to the condition his health had been in during the last several years.   Dad experienced bigeminy, heart rate over 130 bpm, and continued loss of kidney function. He began retaining urine and had to be catheterized. Later, he received 2 sessions of dialysis, before regaining the ability to urinate.  After his initial burn treatment, he continued his recovery at Nursing Home. While there, he experienced a burning sensation in the skin on his inner thigh, which became mottled and purplish with a net-like pattern of redness. The staff at the nursing home attributed these symptoms to the fact that this area was the donor site for a skin graft he'd had to have on his foot, and expected them to fade as that injury healed.  He also contracted 2 staph infections, causing him to have to return to hospital a few days after being released from the nursing home. Again, at the hospital, where his heart rate and other vitals were monitored, Dad experienced a rapid and fluctuating heartbeat, as well as renal symptoms requiring him to undergo dialysis. At that point dialysis became a regular thing in his life, without which he could not survive.   Dad received intravenous medication for his infections and remained at hospital until the medical team felt that he could be transferred to another nursing home. There, he began a second attempt at recovery. He was preparing to return home when symptoms of infection began to emerge again.  Nursing home sent him to hospital. From there, he was transferred to another hospital. They were unable to transfer him because of a directive put into place in response to Covid's Delta variant, which divided the area into 5 sections and required that hospital transfers only occur within the section of the location of the transferring hospital. The nearest level 3 trauma center.  At hospital, Dad was diagnosed with 2 CRE infections. These may have been the same staph infections that hospital thought they had killed, or they could have been new infections. The team at hospital could not determine whether they were new infections.  They determined that the infections were in the bones of Dad's injured feet. They also determined that because of very poor circulation, the few antibiotics that would treat the infection would not permeate the infected area. He could not be treated without amputating his feet.  He also received a preliminary diagnosis from the infectious diseases specialist investigating an apparently unrelated wound on his leg. The infectious disease specialist diagnosed him with calciphylaxis based on the appearance of the wound, his kidney failure, the type of pain surrounding the wound, and the skin discoloration he'd experienced, which I learned was livedo reticularis, a known early symptom of calciphylaxis.  Following the amputation, patient did better than expected for two days, but then his heart and breathing stopped in the night and his defibrillator could not get his heart beating again. He passed away early the morning of November 4th, 2021.  In the wake of Dad's death I wrote to the help system for this reporting system and asked if my suspicion that this is a vaccine related adverse event is correct, and the help system's only response was to tell me how to report the event. I am assuming, based on your system's guidance, that whoever read the above description in my request for information agreed with me that this was a vaccine related adverse event caused by vascular or mulit-system inflammation in response to the Moderna vaccine.