Manchester Metropolitan University first visited his GP after noticing a persistent buzzing sound. The 30-year-old thought he was attending a routine appointment, but was given the devastating news he had a rare brain tumour.He is now unable to close his eyes or use facial expressions, and relies on a ventilator 23 hours a day.Doctors said the cause of the buzzing sound - or tinnitus - in his ears was the result of a 3cm hemangioblastoma, a rare type of tumour on his brain stem, formed mainly of blood vessels.In a cruel twist, he was just weeks away from finishing his PHD at the time of his diagnosis.Michael, from Southport, has since undergone six rounds of brain surgery - the last of which his family feared he might not pull through.He.
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