‘I’m Not the Only One’

To understand why Jerry Knight, that guy from the video, was asking strangers on the Internet about their health, you have to back up to the first episode of this season, where he explains how his wife Kim got sick.

At

first, Jerry and Kim

thought she was having

a flare-up related to her multiple sclerosis.

She was tired, off balance, having headaches.

Eventually, she started forgetting conversations they'd just had.

And then, she stopped drinking enough water, and Jerry knew something wasn't right.

Doctors did a CT scan, and then an MRI.

So to come back and say that she had a mass, that was completely left field, because...

She doesn't have a family history of cancer at all.

Kim was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

And I want to be explicit here.

We do not know that Kim's cancer has anything to do with the Biolab fire.

Thankfully, she had the tumor removed.

It was, you know, extremely aggressive, like borderline stage 3, stage 4 cancer.

While Kim was in the hospital recovering from surgery, Jerry started to hear about neighbors who were going through similar situations.

And she was telling me how her husband was also diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Just like, whoa, that's crazy that we're both dealing with this at the same time.

And then he heard about another neighbor a few days later.

And he responded and said, yeah, I just had a brain tumor removed back in April.

So at this point, now our antennas are up.

Now, Jerry wanted to see how many other people were out there dealing with the same issues.

So he posted his family's story on social media, and it kind of went viral.

Everything from cysts to aneurysms to brain tumors to other forms of cancer, just nodules on lungs, just some of everything is on there.