Age: 83.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Fall, Impaired driving ability, Loss of personal independence in daily activities
Clinical narrative: Within 2 weeks he was having minor balance problems.  We were told that these are not unusual symphoms and would go away.  After second shot on 2/25/21, balance problems increased with dizziness and disorientation. His symphoms increased and he began falling 3-4 times a day.  He was unable to finish weedeating the yard (we have 4-1/2 acres).  That had never been a problem before.  Through April he got much worse, dizziness, bodycoordination, and hand coordination.  He had to stop driving, yard work, and building his4-place airplane.  We saw Dr. in May.  He was hoping it was weakness and started him with PT and Balance Training.  No Change, particularly with balance. He began sleeping much more during the day with multiple naps and longer hours at night.  He had always slept 6 hours at night and no daytime naps.  He was so tired and the effort to get out of a chair was too much.      By the middle of May he was having problems dressing, putting on his shoesand socks and buttoning his shirt.  He was falling often and I insisted he use a cane  for balance.    IIn May and June I took him to all his doctors, internist, cardiac specialist, and even had his eyes tested in case they were part of the problem.  He had a MRI of the brain that was  negative, and heard imaging and cartatid artery sounding 6/8/2021.  All were fine.    He began falling more and tangling his feet, even using a came. sleeping mrre, and not able to do much at all.  On June 26 we went t a special serive.  He could not walk up the 8 steps to the Church.  Two young men nearly carried him up the stairs.  He was unable to dress himself for the occassion.  The cane was no use, he fell three times that afternoon.      He started having even more trouble with his feet tangling and was falling more.  Often he did a slow roll forward.    At 4:21 the morning of July 8, he was standing by the bed.  I asked him what was the problem.  He said that he needed to go to the bathroom.  I ran around and grabbed him and half held him to the bathroom.  He could not stand up on his own!  I almost could not get him back into bed.  He could not sit far enough back on the bed that he did not slide forward off the bed.      The next morning,  I took him to Hospital.  After taking a chest xray, blood, and brain CAT scan, they brought him back to me and sat him in the love seat in the Emergency Room waiting room.  After a few minutes he collapsed on me.    He was not breathing and had a fixed stare.  They got him into triage and got him breathing and his heart going.  When stabilaized, they took him up fpr another CAT scan.  He coded again!  The first CAT was perfectly clear and this one, 40 minutes later,  showed a massive bleed, not an anurism,  deep in the Basal Ganglia/Thalmus area of the brain.  He never regained consciousness and died 16 days lateer.  Since his blood pressure had been carefully controlled all his adult life, he did not have uncontrolled blood pressure, ever!  He was happy and occupied building his plane during the lockdown when we self-isolated for well over a year.  He had so little pressure on him and commented several times what a perfect year we had had!  We agreed it was one of our happiest.   So pressure, unhappiness, or a bad family situation were not present to cause a stroke.    In the nearly 58 years I was married to him he only had flu once and a light cold once.  He took the shots for me bacause I had factors that indicated Covid would be particularly hard on me...Type 2 diabetic, 2 autoammune diseases, was 79, and had a double spinal fusion on the 8th of Decemver, 2020. Prescriptions:    Mens Centrum Silver- Daily, Naproxin 500mg twice daily, Gabapentin 100mg 1 daily    Omeprazole- Twice Daily, Allopurinol 300mg 1 daily, Mirtazapine 7.5mg 1 daily,   Synthroid .175mg - 1 daily, vitimin D3 1 daily   Zyrtec 1 daily, Oxybutynin 5mg twice daily   Lisinopril 12.5mg - twice daily