{"id":3729,"date":"2010-07-18T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T08:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2010-07-18T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T08:34:52","slug":"chris_gulkers_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3729","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gulker&#8217;s Cancer Intensifies and He Begins to Say Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gulker.com\/wp\/2010\/07\/17\/you-know-youre-probably-going-to-have-a-bad-day-when\/\">Chris Gulker<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Your neuro-oncologist, after scanning your most recent MRI, puts her arms around you, and gives you a solemn hug, which was the case with me this past Wednesday. Not that we didn\u2019t guess that something was up \u2013 we haven\u2019t been feeling particularly great lately, and we had some weirdness the previous Thursday, falling twice, inexplicably, in a short period. Friday morning our left leg was numb from the knee down and we had a minor, local motor seizure.<br \/>\nAnyway, the MRI reveals 3 new tumors that weren\u2019t in my brain 12 weeks ago. In my understanding of Glioma, this represents a not-untypical course for the end stage of this almost invariably fatal disease. Prognosis at this point? A few months, at best.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God be with Chris and his family.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Gulker: Your neuro-oncologist, after scanning your most recent MRI, puts her arms around you, and gives you a solemn hug, which was the case with me this past Wednesday. Not that we didn\u2019t guess that something was up \u2013 we haven\u2019t been feeling particularly great lately, and we had some weirdness the previous Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}