Watch the moment man plays guitar while having brain surgery to remove ‘golf ball-sized’ tumour

THIS is the unthinkable infinitesimal a instrumentalist was seen playing the guitar portion doctors removed a "golf ball-sized" tumour from his brain.

Patient Colin Miller, from Herne Bay, reflected connected the "fascinating" acquisition of strumming a tune arsenic doctors performed the operation.

Colin, 64, played the chords connected his acoustic guitar to support mobility successful his manus and fingers during the eight-hour surgery.

The instrumentalist was diagnosed with glioblastoma - a fast-growing benignant of encephalon tumour - successful October 2023.

“I was fixed a prime of being awake oregon dormant for the procedure," Colin revealed.

“The doc questioned however I usage centrifugal movements connected my near side, and I told him I play the guitar.

“So not to suffer mobility successful my manus and fingers, they asked maine to bring successful my guitar and I was woken up portion mode done my country and played antithetic tunes.

“I couldn’t process playing immoderate acquainted songs but strummed chords.

"The full acquisition was fascinating.”

Glioblastomas are treated with surgery if the diligent is good enough, with the hopes of removing arsenic overmuch of the tumour arsenic possible.

Then a people of chemotherapy, radiotherapy oregon some usually follows.

The mean endurance clip is 12-18 months, with tragically lone 25 per cent of patients surviving for implicit a year.

But each lawsuit is different, and immoderate patients unrecorded beyond 5 years oregon longer.

Alex Lochrane, Chief Executive astatine The Brain Tumour Charity, which funds world-class probe and provides specializer enactment services, said: "Around 12,000 radical successful the UK are diagnosed with a encephalon tumour each twelvemonth and portion we person seen immoderate encouraging steps guardant successful some probe and attraction successful caller years, we cognize advancement isn't happening accelerated capable and we request to enactment now."

Brain tumours termination much children and adults nether the property of 40 than immoderate different cancer.

Alex said: "We urgently request to spot greater concern successful world-class research, to assistance diagnose the illness earlier, to amended recognize the causes and find caller treatments, successful bid to springiness those affected anticipation of much clip to unrecorded and a amended prime of life."

"A cure can’t wait"

Colin subsequently underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy and visits King’s College Hospital successful London 4 times a twelvemonth for scans.

Despite his condition, Colin precocious returned to rehearsals with the Herne Bay Baptist Church band, occasionally singing.

He said: “Speaking and singing are 2 antithetic skills. My encephalon takes a portion to process during conversations but erstwhile I’m singing, I tin execute the lyrics well.”

To people a twelvemonth since his procedure, Mr Miller has started a fundraising situation to enactment charity Brain Tumour Research.

He has pledged to locomotion 99 miles this period and truthful acold has raised £682.

As of November 26, helium has already clocked 65 miles.

He continued: “I’ve ever been keen connected walking and for this challenge, I person a spreadsheet of each my walks truthful far, and I’m averaging six miles each day.

“I had to springiness up my driving licence, but I tin inactive determination my body, and I consciousness blessed to beryllium capable to bash truthful successful enactment of the encephalon tumour community.

“I’ve been struck with emotion upon speechmaking the stories shared among the radical connected Facebook.

“I genuinely judge that investing successful probe volition pb america to uncovering kinder treatments and yet a cure for this devastating disease.”