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Dad who heard 'popping' noise lifting weights at gym had nasty surprise next day
ECHO: “I heard like a popping sound but thought nothing of it at the time."The next day I couldn't move my arm it was absolutely killing me with pain."Following an MRI scan, doctors found that the tendons had come off his shoulder bone.Barry needed surgery to reconnect the tendons – but insisted on being awake for the operation.Barry – who is dad to Ethan, 11, Lukas, eight and Archie, six – told his surgeon Simon Robinson that he didn’t want to be put to sleep.He explained: "The thought of being put to sleep, I don't know, it just scared me, so I asked if I could be awake for the operation."My surgeon said he had never done that before, but he agreed, so I was awake for the whole five hour surgery."Despite taking an iPad into theatre to