{"id":5061,"date":"2022-05-30T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/andy-goram-former-rangers-and-scotland-goalkeeper-given-six-months-to-live-after-terminal-cancer-diagnosis"},"modified":"2022-10-18T05:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:24:25","slug":"andy-goram-former-rangers-and-scotland-goalkeeper-given-six-months-to-live-after-terminal-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/andy-goram-former-rangers-and-scotland-goalkeeper-given-six-months-to-live-after-terminal-cancer-diagnosis","title":{"rendered":"Andy Goram: Former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper given six months to live after terminal cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper Andy Goram says he&#8217;ll &#8220;fight like I&#8217;ve never fought before&#8221; after being given six months to live following a terminal cancer diagnosis . Goram started feeling unwell seven weeks ago but he ignored the symptoms he had after he couldn&#8217;t secure a face-to-face meeting with his GP. &#8220;I thought I had severe indigestion&#8221; he said via the Daily Record . &#8220;It was as though my gullet was blocked. After a few weeks, it got worse and nothing was getting through. &#8220;Everything I ate or drank didn&#8217;t get halfway to my stomach and I threw it back up. I couldn&#8217;t get a face-to-face with my GP for two weeks, by which time I was in total agony. I&#8217;d also lost 4st in four weeks.&#8221; Goram, who won the Scottish Premier Division five times with Rangers, said the reality of his situation set in when doctors said his level 4 oesophageal cancer couldn&#8217;t be operated on. He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper Andy Goram says he&#8217;ll &#8220;fight like I&#8217;ve never fought before&#8221; after being given six months to live following a terminal cancer diagnosis.Goram started feeling unwell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[349,59,102],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-diseases-treatments","tag-health","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}