Survivor Story: He Lived Through Bombs and a Brain Tumor

Guitarist Henry Cluney says he escaped swine killed several period during the turbulent years he was playing his brand of political punk stone in Northern Ireland. "I've been through bombs and things," Cluney says.

His band, Stiff Little Fingers, dodged the missiles and recorded at least two major hits in Northern Ireland: "Suspect Device" and "Alternative Ulster."

But Cluney could not dodge the brain tumor that was growing slowly inside his skull. It did not cause symptoms until it was the size of a baseball -- lonesome subsequently did he begin experiencing dizziness.

Derek Johnson, MD, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, diagnosed an totally rare and slow-growing tumor called a subependymoma. It had probably been growing for years.

Surgery was the and no-one else irregular, but it carried a little risk of damaging the motor skills Cluney needed to take effect the guitar.

After the surgery, the moment of unmovable: A therapist brought Cluney his guitar and asked him to perform.

"It was the way it always was," Cluney says, "immense." Both his motor skills and his Irish wisdom of humor were intact.

Now Cluney is lead upon tour, conduct yourself-battle solo performances in the United States and in Europe.

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