Has anyone contracted renal failure as result of high dose chemo?

If you have are you still doing dialysis or have your kidneys recovered to operate normally again? This happened to my husband and he's now haveing to do dialysis.

My husband just got out of ICU a few days ago and is doing better but still needs the dialysis. He was semicomatose and out of it - pretty scary for awhile.

I was almost in renal failure at one point a couple months ago. It was about 2 weeks after a chemo treatment, I was extremly neutrupenic and was in the ICU for septic shock from an infection. I was sedated, so I dont really know everything that was going on, but they almost had to put me on dialysis for renal failure.
I dont know how long the dialysis will be needed or anything like that, but I do know that my kidney's are still not working entirely properly and I have to take daily potassium pills.

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