{"id":1,"date":"2009-09-17T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-10-07T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:55:12","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to PaulBergren.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check back often for updates on Paul’s life, location, and health. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t forget to visit the “About Paul<\/a>” page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul was recently diagnosed with cancer for the second time in his life. The cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) has no known cure and is very resistant to Chemo and radiation treatments. Paul’s wife Gail has also had serious health problems for the last 10 years.\u00c2\u00a0Until now, they\u00c2\u00a0were able to make ends meet\u00c2\u00a0on Paul’s salary and used his\u00c2\u00a0work\u00c2\u00a0insurance to fill in the gaps with what Medicare did not cover for Gail.<\/p>\n

Well, Paul has not been able to work since the beginning of June and is now medically disabled and will not be returning to work. His medical insurance ran out at the end of August and he has had to begin paying for his own insurance via the COBRA laws (it is expensive).<\/p>\n

Paul and Gail need financial help to pay for\u00c2\u00a0 insurance, medical expenses, day-to-day living expenses, and moving expenses to get them back to Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0They will be moving back to\u00c2\u00a0Chicago\u00c2\u00a0in the next couple of months to be close to family and friends.<\/p>\n

A fund is set up at TCF Bank\u00c2\u00a0on behalf of Paul and Gail. The name of the fund is the\u00c2\u00a0 “Paul Bergren Family Fund<\/strong>“.\u00c2\u00a0 If anyone can afford to help out, there are 2 ways to donate:<\/p>\n

1) You can deposit money directly into the fund account with a credit card, or transfer funds from a\u00c2\u00a0bank account\u00c2\u00a0via the PayPal\u00c2\u00a0 “Donate”\u00c2\u00a0button on this web page. Just click on the\u00c2\u00a0button and fill in the required information.<\/p>\n

2)\u00c2\u00a0Mail checks\u00c2\u00a0made payable to “Paul Bergren Family Fund<\/strong>“\u00c2\u00a0 to\u00c2\u00a0Paul’s brother, Steve, and he\u00c2\u00a0will deposit them in the account.<\/p>\n

Steve Bergren
\n6243 W. 63rd Street
\nChicago, IL 60638<\/p>\n

Thank you\u00c2\u00a0in advance for anything that you can do to help!\u00c2\u00a0 A fundraiser will be planned after\u00c2\u00a0Paul and Gail\u00c2\u00a0relocate back to Chicago to help them out even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check back often for updates on Paul’s life, location, and health. Don’t forget to visit the “About Paul” page. Paul was recently diagnosed with cancer for the second time in his life. The cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) has no known cure and is very resistant to Chemo and radiation treatments. Paul’s wife Gail has also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulbergren.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}