[Viking2002]

God bless all 82 of your mother's years. My mother-in-law made it to 70. My mother is 68, and as a retired RN of 42 years, she puzzles as to why a single chemo treatment would have resulted in this. The current consensus is, something underlying was the cause; the single chemo session was just the catalyst that triggered it. The sick irony is, my mother-in-law was also a retired RN, and may have been aware of the physiological mechanics of what was happening to her in those final hours, but was too incapacitated to express it.

[cyborg]

Memorial Sloan Kettering is doing research into why some people have this response to chemo. My mother was told she lacked the liver enzymes to clear chemo from the body. It’s an enzyme she was born without. She also had a very rare cancer too. It was hell on earth for this brand new nurse.