TORONTO -- Musician and writer Neil Exall will have to keep quiet if he ever wants to drop out of the local rock scene. Otherwise, it might not let him go.
The singer-guitarist for Toronto underground outfit The Mercurymen, Exall was out of commission for 15 months with a mystery stomach condition. He'd suffered from chronic agony for years, soldiering on through the pain on stage with his band, but was felled in late 1999 by an additional ailment, Boerhaave's Syndrome, in which the esophagus becomes detached from the stomach. Repairs include stretching the stomach up to the throat as a makeshift food pipe.
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