New Found Glory guitarist has three more tumours removed from his brain amid long health battle
- Tomas Kauer - International News Writer and Moderator 
New Found Glory Guitarist Chad Gilbert has had three more tumours removed from his brain amid his long battle with rare adrenal cancer.
The 45-year-old rockstar and father was taken back to hospital on February 23 after he lost control of his left hand during a show in Nashville.
He said his leg got weaker "by the day," which led to him going back into treatment.
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Gilbert took to Instagram in a combined post with his wife, Lisa Cimorelli, to explain that a CT scan had uncovered new tumours in his brain.
"On February 27, I had successful brain surgery and have been recovering in the hospital since. I regained function of my left hand immediately," he wrote.
"My radiation oncologist described it like this: 'this is not a fatal blow and not the end of your story, just the beginning of a new chapter.'
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"My recovery has been bumpy at times but I'm feeling much better now and getting stronger by the day.
"Thankful to everyone who's checked in on me and helped my family during this lengthy and challenging journey."
His post included pictures of him recovering in hospital, with his wife at his bedside.
Cimorelli also took to her Instagram stories, sharing that Gilbert was recovering quicker than expected.
Gilbert was diagnosed with the rare condition in 2021.
His diagnosis was made public by his wife Lisa in December 2021, when she shared the "traumatic" week that led to his diagnosis of adrenal cancer.
"I found my husband unresponsive in our bed December 5th after I thought he was just sick and sleeping in way too late," she wrote in a post on Instagram at the time.
"Called 911 because I couldn't wake him up and he was making a strange gurgling sound, then had to perform CPR on him until paramedics could come.
"His blood sugar mysteriously dropped to 20 overnight and he was almost dead when I found him.
"He was revived with a sugar IV and then taken to the hospital in an ambulance. After that he was in the ICU for a week because he couldn't survive without a blood pressure drip and a sugar drip.
"An angel of a doctor diagnosed him just from his extreme symptoms with a rare tumour called a pheochromocytoma, a tumour that grows on the adrenal gland and secretes hormones that drive your blood pressure way up and eat your glucose (blood sugar)."
At the time, doctors realised his tumour was malignant and had spread to his liver, prompting them to remove half of his liver and his right adrenal gland.
Since his original diagnosis, the rock star has been in and out of the hospital, dealing with the condition.
New Found Glory are a American pop-punk band that formed in 1997. They are often referred to as the "godfathers" of pop-punk, as they are credited with defining the genre in the early 2000s.
Gilbert shares a four-year-old daughter with Cimorelli, who they welcomed in July 2021.
The pair were married on March 10, 2020.
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