Explosive NUT Carcinoma and a Six-Week Decline

Day 2 · 6:35:10 · Nicole Morier · Marylou Lavalle · Shawn Buckley

• 🫁 In March 2023 extreme lung and neck pain led to a CT showing a right-lung tumor, collapsed lobes, chest mass shoving the heart, and huge nodes.
• ⚡ Oncologists called the growth unprecedented—doubling in two weeks, equal to a decade of typical cancer—diagnosing ultra-rare NUT carcinoma.
• 🩸 Platelets crashed to 6, a 24-hour nosebleed, chemo triggered organ failure, and she died May 2 after Nicole held her through a death coma.

Diagnosis through final days of Abigail’s rapidly fatal rare cancer.

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Transcript

Nicole Morier · 6:35:11

And her second shot to comply to the employment standards, October 15th, 2021. About 7 months after that, she started feeling unwell. She was nauseous, just generally couldn't pinpoint what was happening. Those symptoms progressed. And then in March of— March 16th of 2023, she had issues with swallowing and she went to a walk-in clinic And they ordered an endoscopy, which is a procedure. They put a scope down your throat. And on March 19th, she was in so much pain, so uncomfortable. She phoned my mom. I was working that day, and she said, "Grams, you need to come and pick me up. Something really bad is happening. Something's really wrong." They took her to emerg. She was put into the back room right away. She had shoot— like extreme pain in her right lung. It was shooting up her neck into her head. And the ER doctor thought maybe she had mild pneumonia, possibly a blood clot in her right lung.

Nicole Morier · 6:36:17

They did a CT scan, which revealed that she was basically full of cancer. And she had a tumor in her right lung. She was 23 years old. She never smoked. Her lower lobe and her middle lobe of her lung were both collapsed, and it was causing her lung to consistently fill up with fluid. And it would fill up with a liter of fluid. So you imagine a liter of fluid sitting— Abigail was a small person— sitting inside your collapsed lung. How painful that would be along with a tumor. She had a tumor in the middle of her chest area. It was so large that it was obstructing her cardiac, um, her heart. All the valves were being pushed over to the left side of her body. She had enlarged lymph nodes all throughout her body. She had two in her neck that were so large that they were threatening to either cut off her ability to swallow or to breathe.

Nicole Morier · 6:37:24

She had numerous health issues throughout her care in the hospital. She was transferred between two hospitals, Red Deer and Calgary. She had numerous specialists. She had hematologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists. She had a team of cardiologists and nobody understood what was going on with her. One of the cardio— or one of the Oncologist said to me, I've never seen anything like this, especially in someone so young. They couldn't understand the rate of the growth of her cancer. The tumor in her chest grew in just— it doubled in size in just 2 weeks. The oncologist explained to me that this is something, this tumor and this growth is something that they would normally see in a cancer patient over a 10-year time span. They were seeing this growth in 2 weeks. She was diagnosed with an extremely rare cancer.

Nicole Morier · 6:38:25

The chances of getting this type of cancer is 1 in multi-millions and millions of people. It was an extraordinary cancer on top of a very rare cancer. It's called nut carcinoma. Um, From the time that she was diagnosed to the time she passed, it was only 6 weeks. She deteriorated very rapidly. Um, she went from having normal ECGs to abnormal ECGs. Blood work went crazy. She was near the end of life. They had to start doing platelet, uh, blood transfusions because her platelets dropped so low. And normal platelets are between 150 and 450, and hers dropped to a level 6. 6. She was at extreme risk of internal bleeding, of having a stroke. Any sort of surgery at that point was completely off the charts. The last weekend of her life, she was transferred back to Calgary Foothills by her oncologist, who said, you need to come back.

Nicole Morier · 6:39:32

They transported her in an ambulance. They said, we think you'll get better care here. She became extremely bloated during that weekend. She looked like she was 5 months pregnant. I kept questioning what was going on with her. Saturday afternoon, she developed a nosebleed, and her nose bled for 24 hours. And I kept saying to them, you need to do something.

Marylou Lavalle · 6:40:00

You need to help her.

Nicole Morier · 6:40:05

And they finally sent someone up, a specialist, and they pulled a massive blood clot out of her nose with some forceps and some suction. And she was coughing up massive blood clots because of the blood she was swallowing. And she had a vessel that was very prominent and bleeding. Because her platelets were so low, her blood wouldn't clot. And so they cauterized the vessel and they put gauze up into her nose, and she was on oxygen and she was on nasal prongs, and they couldn't use the nasal prongs anymore. And so they put the mask on her, and she didn't like it because she couldn't breathe.

Nicole Morier · 6:41:05

She kept pulling it off, and I kept putting it on, and she kept pulling it off. And I sat at her bed and I held the mask out from her face because I would do anything for her. I would just sit there and hold my arm up because I wanted her to get the oxygen. And she became so unwell that weekend. She came very quiet, almost non-responsive, didn't eat a lot, didn't say a lot. I tried to get her in the shower. That was impossible. And on May 1st, they administered 2 rounds of chemo, and that proved to be all that her body could handle. She went into a state of metabolic acidosis, and all her healthy organs literally started to shut down and fail one by one.

Nicole Morier · 6:42:11

And she suffered immensely, and she fought so hard. And about midnight that night, she went unconscious. I thought she was sleeping. They tried to sternum rub her. They couldn't wake her up. They call it a death coma. And so I crawled into bed with her and I snuggled with her and I rubbed her hair in her ears and I told her I loved her. And I could tell she was getting near the end of her life because of her breathing. I watched my dad and my grandma pass, so I recognized the breathing pattern. And I was singing to her lullaby, and it was so painful that I just buried my head into her chest because I couldn't watch it anymore.

Shawn Buckley · 6:43:09

Just felt so helpless.

Nicole Morier · 6:43:14

And about 9:30 on May 2nd, she took a breath in and a breath out, and that was it. And I laid in bed with her until 2:30 that afternoon, and I told that hospital I wasn't leaving without my daughter. We had to make special arrangements for a funeral home in Red Deer to drive to Calgary and pick her up. And after she died, I got to brush her hair and I wiped her nose. I said, please take the stuff out of her nose. And I wiped the blood off her nose. And I brushed her hair, and they put her in a body bag and they zipped her up.

Speaker I · 6:44:06

And I couldn't believe what happened.

Nicole Morier · 6:44:13

And that's ultimately how she left this world, suffering and in a lot of pain. And for what? For a virus that has a 99% survival rate? For something that she got when your immune system is intact and you're young and healthy, you just get over it. Your body knows what to do. All because of a mandate.