Chuck Norris had spent USD 2 million on the treatment of Gena O'Kelley's health condition. The actor had found love for the second time in Gena O'Kelley.
Legendary actor and martial arts icon, Chuck Norris, passed away. He had found love for the second time in Gena O'Kelley. She hogged major limelight when Gena and Chuck claimed that a routine medical procedure had triggered a life-threatening condition in Gena. The actor and his wife had sued pharmaceutical and medical companies along with distributors for more than USD 10 million.
Chuck Norris had claimed that his wife, Gena O'Kelley, was poisoned with gadolinium, which is a metal used in MRI scans. A report by Courthouse News.com revealed that when Gena was 54, she was hospitalised many times due to pain from the gadolinium. This dye is used in MRI scans to enhance the quality of the scans. Gena had undergone 3 MRI scans that also in one week back in 2012 to check her rheumatoid arthritis.
The report mentioned that Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena, had claimed that they had already spent USD 2 million from 2012 to 2017 for the treatment of Gena's gadolinium deposition disease. The metal is known to remain in various parts of the body after injection. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had said it was not harmful for healthy people. Well, Chuck Norris' wife, Gena O'Kelley, reportedly had continued to require regular stem cell therapies and other treatment for five years after gadolinium poisoning. What had started for Gena as a normal medical procedure had soon become a life-threatening condition. This was mentioned in the lawsuit, a part of which read:
"While the Norris family has spent millions of dollars to save Gena's life, they have had to go outside of mainstream medicine to accomplish this. The FDA has still not approved the most common gadolinium removal treatment, chelation, which patients like Gena must pay for out-of-pocket."
Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena O'Kelley, had filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court. They had claimed that Gena was poisoned by gadolinium-related contrast agents, which are used for MRI. Gena used to experience intense burning sensations in her body after she underwent three MRI scans over eight days. The heart used to pound, and despite many hospital visits, her symptoms had worsened. She had to leave Texas, travel to China to receive alternative treatments like chelation therapy along with stem cell treatments. Genna Norris, according to the publication, had also said that she was broken and that she never blamed the doctors at all, because companies have been keeping things hidden and in the shadows.
The report mentioned that the Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee voted to add warning labels for gadolinium-based agents used in MRI scans. Such labels could warn patients of the great risk that gadolinium poses to kids and pregnant women. Gena had taken the legal step along with Chuck due to the lack of response she had received from the defendants, Bracco Diagnostics Inc. In a statement, she had revealed:
"Unfortunately, litigation is the only course of action we can take to hold the drug companies accountable for threatening the lives of so many innocent people who undergo MRIs. These companies continue to say that there is no link between gadolinium and adverse events, even though the evidence is overwhelming that this heavy metal stays in the body for years, rather than hours."
Bracco Diagnostics Inc has been one of the largest U.S. subsidiaries of Bracco Imaging in the diagnostics industry. Reports floating on social media revealed that it was in 2020 when the diagnostic imaging business did not make any comment related to the pending litigations as per the corporate policy. However, Bracco had later announced that Chuck Norris and Gena O'Kelley had dismissed the case. Earlier, Gena had claimed that she faced injury from the Bracco's magnetic resonance (MR) contrast agent named, MultiHance (gadobenate dimeglumine) injection, 529 mg/mL. No settlement payment was made, and each party paid their own costs.
Chuck Norris' wife, Gena O'Kelley, had symptoms that were very severe, and reports revealed that there was a point when she became so critical that she had to be admitted to the intensive care units. The situation had become so serious that Norris had thought that he had lost Gena. Sadly now both of them are not alive. The Norisses earlier sought compensation for the damage they suffered and claimed they were kept in the dark about the side effects of the dangerous gadolinium. Gena's doctors reportedly were not being able to diagnose her health condition that had worsened.
Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena O'Kelley, faced a major ordeal when her health worsened.
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