We didn't get her home today.....

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1. Second treatments.

I know that you shouldn't extrapolate from one person's experience, but it's a pretty well-known fact that many people suffer some serious repercussions from chemo.

During my second series of chemo (Carboplatin & Taxol), I had an anaphylactic reaction to the Carbo. I went from feeling perfectly fine to being unconscious in a matter of minutes. Luckily, I had mentioned to the chemo nurses that I was feeling "funny", and they leaped into action like the Superwomen they are -- shutting off the drip, injecting Epinephrine (I think), and I came out of it in 15 minutes or so.

However, anaphylaxis causes an intense, whole body reaction as the body tries to get rid of the offending agent. And in my case, it blew off some coronary arterial plaque and I landed in the hospital a couple of days later with a heart attack.

Luckily again, I was treated so quickly that the docs said that there was no damage done to my heart.

This was four years ago, and today I'm feeling as fine as I ever have.