𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗣𝗙𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗥
Trent Lieffring
Died Aug 24, 2023
Trent 23-year-old was working toward a promising future. He was attending college in Nashville. Believing it was the right thing to do, Trent received two doses of the Pfizer- COVID-19 vaccine Ill, but after his 2nd dose he experienced a cardiac arrest and subsequent brain damage, apparently due to blood clots.
Trent spent the rest of his life in a vegetative state until he died on Aug. 24, 2023. His death certificate acknowledged “reaction to COVID-19 vaccination" as one of the causes of his death.
Trent's parents, Andy Lieffring and Kimberly Aveyah said “His biology professor had kind of given a speech to his class on taking the shot for the good of others." Although “Trent didn't need it … he took that speech to heart and went and got the vaccine," Kimberly said.
Trent began experiencing adverse reactions. according to his girlfriend.
“She went into the bathroom, and she heard him say something to her and turned around and he had passed out," Andy said. “He had gone into cardiac arrest."
According to Andy, it took paramedics “a very long time to revive our son." They “actually revived him once, lost him, and then revived him again." By the time they got him breathing, he had sustained significant brain damage because of how long his brain had been deprived of oxygen.
“One ICU nurse had said, ‘I just don't see how this could have shut down his heart unless there was a blood clot that first shut down his lungs, and [then] the cardiac arrest.' That was her best guess," Andy recalled.
Initially, Trent responded to some stimuli in his environment.
“He could respond to pain and sounds and things like that that are coming from your brainstem, those basic functions," Kimberly said. “But it's hard to say if someone in the vegetative state is aware of you or not. Sometimes we thought he was. And then as things progressed … I didn't feel like he knew we were there."
Andy noted that Trent was also “heavily medicated" during this period, “because his spasticity got so bad." It was difficult to ascertain whether Trent would have had more situational awareness had he not been on such medications.
“It was a double-edged sword. The medication also kept him from suffering," Andy said. “He suffered greatly."
Trent spent nearly a month in the hospital, but as he was uninsured, his family had to transfer him to a state-run nursing home, despite their reluctance.
Trent spent three months in the facility, with his parents spending “10, 11 hours a day" with him. But when he became sick and had to be transferred to the emergency room, his family learned that he was approved for Medicaid, enabling him to be readmitted to the hospital, and subsequently to return home.
Trent spent the last four months of his life at home, during which he did some physical and speech therapy at a local rehab facility. At times, he seemed to be improving.
Trent's condition gradually worsened. “In the months after that, he started to shut down a little bit more, a difficult decision to place Trent under hospice care
During Trent's final days of life, family members were by his side, Kimberly said:
“We wanted to have it at home, with family surrounding him. And so, we used the days to sing with him, to laugh with him, tell him stories about himself and things we did as a family prayed, some extended family came in to visit here and there.
“When Trent passed away, it probably was one of the most beautiful experiences of just releasing his body and the suffering attached to it, surrounded by those that loved him. So, it was actually the most peaceful and serene time since the accident started."
COVID vaccine listed as one of the causes of Trent's death - To the surprise of Trent's parents, his death certificate included the COVID-19 vaccine as one of the causes of his death.
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