We've been giving fairly frequent updates about singer Russell Watson and the brain tumors he's successfully beaten in recent years. Now we find out that Watson thought at one time that he'd reached the end of his days.
“I was sliding into the MRI scanner, which is like a coffin, when I started thinking about my kids. I thought 'what are they going to do without their dad?’”So "The People's Tenor"'s tenure continues.
Russell Watson has revealed he will go on tour just months after fears he would die from a brain tumour. The opera singer was told he might never perform again after an operation in October to remove the growth was followed by intensive radiology.
But a source close to the dad-of-two, 41, said: "It's something Russell really wants to do - to prove to himself as well as his fans he is back to his best.This tour may not bode well for the Sagittarius. His opposite sign is Gemini, and Watson's tour kicks off during the June Gemini season. We can only hope that Watson can prove once again that he is a Gemini in the rough.
"It doesn't seem long since his operation but he feels he is ready.
"Russell has at least a day off between the dates so it won't exert him too much."
Russel Watson, the British opera singer whose tomour returned in October, causing him to undergo immediate therapy, has successfully completed his intensive medical procedures. Now a series of tests will determine if the procedures were successful. Watson, for his part, is cautiously optimistic:
The 41-year-old said the intensive treatment was "no walk in the park..." Writing in his blog, the star said the side effects had caught up with him, but his hair was "hanging in there".What about the question on everyone's mind: Can he return to his status as "The Voice?"
His manager Giles Baxendale said Watson's eyesight and voice did not appear to have been damaged by the radiotherapy as feared... "We're hoping at some point he will return to doing what he loves to do," Mr Baxendale said.With any luck, this story may go from needing a basso profundo to a basso buffo in no time.
From the basso profundo tone - the most serious of the bass voices - of his doctors, opera singer Russell Watson knew that he was in for a long journey back to health. He underwent surgery for a brain tumor in October, his second operation on the tumor in 12 months. It's a tumor he once beat successfully in 2006 that's now returned for a second act.
Watson runs the risk of damaging his eyesight with the gruelling course of radiotherapy he has started to eradicate a recurrent brain tumour, his manager said. The 41-year-old singer will undergo five days of radiotherapy every week for the next five weeks.While Watson's spirits appear to not need to be raised, other opera spirits, namely the phantom, sit and wait as the tension builds with the drama.
Mr Watson, who is known as The Voice, told reporters: "My throat feels OK. I feel a little bit tired. "It takes a while to get your energy and stamina levels up again. It's been a strange new year, 2008, in for my radiotherapy on January 2." The Salford-born singer released a statement on his website before Christmas which said: "This year is going to be such a big celebration with my daughters, who are my strength and inspiration in everything I do."
