At this point Marie had done three chemo injections into the reservoir in her head. She had also taken a total of nine nights of temozolomide capsules. This was a week where she was getting both types of chemotherapy. Since this was all pretty new to us we just didn't know what side effects to expect. We did have all the literature about the normal side effects and Marie was doing great in that regard. But what we were seeing was not in the normal range of side effects.
Marie was being distant, almost non responsive. She was sleeping a lot and was very difficult to wake up. The confusion and disorientation was getting much worse. Then there was the fluid leak, or whatever that was. If it was sweating it was in very large volumes. Nothing any of us had ever seen before.
That afternoon my mother in law and my daughter took Marie out to lunch. After a few bits Marie threw up. We passed that off as a reaction to the chemotherapy. Oh, and by the way, when Marie woke up that day, her pillow was covered in liquid again.
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