Rangers legend Andy Goram has just six months to live after terminal cancer diagnosis
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers legend Andy Goram has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Doctors have given the Ibrox icon about six months to live, the former goalkeeper said.
Goram knocked back chemotherapy after being warned the treatment would only give him an extra 12 weeks. Now the 58-year-old has said he’ll put everything he has into battling the disease.He said: “I’ll fight like I’ve never fought before.”Goram – nicknamed The Goalie – first started to feel ill around seven weeks ago.He was struggling to eat and drink and thought he was suffering from heartburn.However, he ignored the symptoms after failing to get a face-to-face appointment with his GP in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.It was only when the pain became unbearable and he noticed how thin he’d become that he called the surgery.He was told to go to Monklands Hospital for a scan and was then transferred to Wishaw General the following morning.Goram, who spent seven years at Ibrox and is considered by many to be Rangers’ greatest ever goalkeeper, realised his condition was serious when medical staff advised him to ask his family to attend.He said: “I thought I had severe indigestion.
It was as though my gullet was blocked. After a few weeks, it got worse and nothing was getting through.Everything I ate or drank didn’t get halfway to my stomach and I threw it back up.“I couldn’t get a face-to-face with my GP for two weeks, by which time I was in total agony.
I’d also lost 4st in four weeks.”He added: “I had a CT scan at Monklands, then was rushed to Wishaw General and told my next of kin should be with me.“That is when the alarm bells started ringing.
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