So Friday was the saddest day of my life. My wonderful brother was buried under a beautiful oak tree in a pretty cemetery in a small town in Maine where he and his wife spent 43 years of married life. His son just sat there shaking his head. His granddaughter put her favorite doll in the casket with him, so he wouldn't be alone while he was "sleeping" and our 96-year-old mother just stared at the casket with a flower in her hand to put on it at the end. All five of us siblings looked on speechless. All we are left with now are memories of the man we loved who died too soon from something we just don't understand.

Thank you all for your prayers and comforting words. They helped.

So Friday was the saddest day of my life. My wonderful brother was buried under a beautiful oak tree in a pretty cemetery in a small town in Maine where he and his wife spent 43 years of married life. His son just sat there shaking his head. His granddaughter put her favorite doll in the casket with him, so he wouldn't be alone while he was "sleeping" and our 96-year-old mother just stared at the casket with a flower in her hand to put on it at the end. All five of us siblings looked on speechless. All we are left with now are memories of the man we loved who died too soon from something we just don't understand.

Thank you all for your prayers and comforting words. They helped.

I am writing this to let you know that on Saturday my brother, Tom, passed away from complications stemming from his first shot of the M*****a v*****e. He received the shot on Tuesday, April 26 and was awaiting his second shot to be given on May 27.

On April 27, Tom's arm swelled up where he got the shot, and it was very sore. On May 3, he started to feel dizzy and experienced a severe headache and nausea. According to his wife, he said he hadn't been feeling good for a few days. By May 7 he had all the symptoms of an allergic reaction to the v*****e...body aches, very tired, chills and the injection site and his armpit, shoulder and upper arm became very red and swollen. He had no history wh**ever of any allergies to anything that he knew of in his 66 years of life. On May 9 he began having a fever. It persisted for two more days when on May 11, his wife became alarmed and called an ambulance because he was so fatigued he was unable to get up from his chair. He was rushed to a hospital in a city near his hometown where they pronounced that he was in the midst of an acute reaction to the M*****a shot. They kept him there for a few days, where he continued to worsen. His O2 was decreasing, BP was all over the place and he was becoming more and more unstable. On May 16 he was airlifted to the Mass General Hospital in Boston. His breathing became labored on May18, and he was intubated. His body continued to deteriorate and on Saturday, May 22 early in the afternoon his kidneys started to break down. He passed away Saturday night at 10:23 PM.

We bury him on Friday. His cause of death: "m**A-1273 hypersensitivity."

I am extremely grieved over his death, but I am beyond angry that his life has been taken from him because of this. And of course, there's nothing to be done about it. There are disclaimers all over the place. The hospital gave us their disclaimers and showed us the pharmaceutical company's disclaimers. We can't blame the hospital, anyway. They did everything they possibly could to save his life. I am just so angry right now. This is wrong.....wrong.