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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | BANJO LEGEND PLAYS ON OPERATING TABLE DURING BRAIN SURGERY
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Eddie Adcock has plucked his banjo on many stages – but nothing probably comes close to playing the instrument on an operating table. The bluegrass legend, 70, was kept awake to perform while surgeons tried to figure out the cause of a career-threatening hand tremor. Amazingly it meant keeping him conscious under local anesthetic while surgeons poked and prodded around inside his head. The operation, performed by doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center near his home Nashville, Tenn., was hailed a success Wednesday. His “unconscious tremor” is now controlled by a pacemaker implanted in his chest, which delivers a jolt of electricity to jam the affected part of his brain. “It was risky but playing means that much to me,” said Adcock. “I never went through hell like this. But I couldn’t bear giving up the banjo.”
Top 10 tunes Eddie Might have played during his op:
1. Comfortably Numb --- Pink Floyd
2. First Cut is the Deepest – Rod Stewart
3. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head — Kylie Minogue
4. Insane In The Brain — Cypress Hill
5. Mind Games — John Lennon
6. Oops Upside Your Head — The Gap Band
7. Hole In The Head — Sugababes
8. Making Your Mind Up — Bucks Fizz
9. The Drugs Don’t Work — The Verve
10. The Nutcracker Suite — Tchaikovsky
Link to the OP/pic\'s/video
Congrats Eddie: Heal quickly! |
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