Posted on 06/10/2017 6:59:53 AM PDT by markomalley
TV's action hero Chuck Norris finally faced a villain he couldn't beat -- and it almost killed his wife.
According to Sunday's edition of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, Gena Norris nearly died from complications after having MRIs several years ago.
In the report, Gena Norris said that the heavy metal gadolinium injected in her to enhance the MRI images lingered in her body for years and caused burning pain. Repeated tests were unable to locate the cause.
(video at link)
"I just heard that still small voice deep inside of me that said, Gena your body is dying. And I walked out of the bathroom and he just took one look at me and he knew; I'm about to lose my wife," said Gena Norris.
Chuck Norris told Attkisson, "I saw death in her eyes. I saw her dying and I said you know I've got to do something."
The problems began after she had three MRIs in one week to evaluate her rheumatoid arthritis.
"I was in the emergency room for like 5 or 6 nights in a row and the symptoms had continued to get worse and worse. And by the fourth, fifth, sixth night, the burning just kept traveling and I would go in and they'd say, well what's wrong with you? And I'm like I, I don't know. I don't feel good. And I'm just, I'm burning. All I can tell you is I'm burning all over. I feel like I have acid everywhere in my tissues, I'm just, I'm on fire," she said.
While the Food and Drug Administration said there is no evidence of poisoning, it is investigating reports of chronic pain and other symptoms to determine if "there are any potential adverse health effects," Attkisson reported.
For Chuck Norris, the feeling helplessness was horrible.
Chuck Norris: "Well it's the helpless feeling, you know cause I'm kind of a take charge guy, and then here I have something where I cannot do anything and it was, it was horrifying and, and uh, I just thank, thank God that we were able to weather it and that she did get better and I got my wife back."
The show airs Sunday on Sinclair stations nationwide, and is streamed live on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. at www.fullmeasure.news.
This is about her excellent "Full Measure" interview.
If only proof reading were still practiced:
“I’m about to lose my wife,” said Gena Norris.”
How about “life” instead of “wife”.
Just irritates me how amateur people are now.
Gadolinium is nasty stuff. I have to get it once a year for my MRIs and as soon as it hits the bloodstream around my stomach it makes me feel like I’m going to puke. Luckily that hasn’t happened yet since I really don’t feel like spewing inside an MRI tube. I’ve gotten to the point that I tell the tech to push it slowly and then wait about 30 seconds before they shove me back in the tube just in case.
It sounds like it’s not the MRI, but the gadolinium, that is the problem.
Something caused her problem, but I’m not sure Gd is the problem. With normal kidney function, the plasma half life of gadolinium is 90 minutes. 5 times 90, means Gd is gone in about 8 hours.
I sat right next to Chuck and his mother at a martial arts display at Madison square garden around 1974. A friend of my father got him ringside tickets and I had no idea who Chuck Norris was until my father told me. I around 11 years old and I remember Chuck asking me what grade I was in, if I did martial arts (I didn’t). Little did I know I was sitting next to the guy who invented pain, a man who was bitten by a cobra and after five days of excruciating pain the cobra died. The man who sued NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs. A man who wears sunglasses so that his eyes won’t hurt the sun. A guy who once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants today are known as giraffes.
When I was younger my appendix burst and I wound up in the ER. No clue what they put in me for contrast but yes, it burned like fire. My whole body. Lasted about 30 mins. Have had a lot of contrast scans since, since I had breast cancer, but nothing ever burned again.
I wish I could get an MRI. I use to be able to, as well as get the routine colonoscopy especially since I’m 54 and colon cancer runs in my family. But thanks to Obamacare, I no longer have health insurance. But I’m sure a lot of people who sneaked into this country have it. Direct threat to my life by Democrats and the RINOs who refuse to repeal and replace it.
LOL That’s funny right there!
I learned a long time ago many aspects of the medical field is a few steps up from witch doctors...
They mean well but arrogance sometimes leads them to made mistakes.
Twice in my life either because they didn’t care or were too busy they almost killed me...
Just recently my doctor changed one of my medication and never even asked me a question or went over the side effects...
After watching all the skin around my joints start to bubble up and develope a nasty rash did I read the side effects...
Top line was my exact issue...in bold...
That line confused me too. I re-read it numerous times, then decided to just ignore it and keep reading.
I had never heard of the metal gadolinium till now.
If she experienced such a severe reaction, it’s probably also happened to other people. Hopefully, by now there are other choices available. She had a lot of MRI very close together.
At very least these could be spaced further apart. One would hope.
“and that she did get better and I got my wife back.”
Thats only because the gadolinium finally figured out it was attacking the body of the wife of chuck norris and backed away out of fear of the consequences.
Since the story is about Nortis’ sick wife, I think that’s the exact word writer intended to use.
Norris says, later in the article: “I got my wife back”.
I am claustrophobic and regard my full-body MRI as the most horrific medical experience of my life. Not exaggerating when I say it is in the top 5 of the worst experiences of my life.
Lol!
Yes, it is one thing when a person makes a typo in a hurry while posting on FR or sending a text message, but it is quite another when a so-called journalist does not stop to proofread.
Chuck Norris doesn’t have a watch. HE decides what time it is.
I knew a guy who thinks he is supposed to be able to play contact sports in his 50s and still be pain free. He had good insurance with his company.
He complained that every specialist he went to ordered an MRI and he could not figure out why. I opined, not to gently, that it was because he had the money, the insurance, the time and was willing to let them.
I’m so beat up it takes me at least 10 paces to straighten up from sitting but still no medications and I’ve never had an MRI.
I guess they are good for somethings but I wonder how we ever did without them they are used so frequently. Guess you gotta pay for those expensive machines somehow.
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