Almost a year went by after the operation. They were all covered by her insurance plan. "There was just a pain that wasn't there anymore."Īs she recovered, Cannon saw lots of huge medical bills go by. "I think it was Day 3 after my surgery I could feel the difference," Cannon says. In December 2017, a neurosurgeon opened up her spinal column and operated for several hours, freeing the cord. In Cannon's case, the disorder also led to a tumor that trapped her spinal cord, causing it to stretch as she grew. It causes the spinal cord to split in two. The images showed that Cannon had been born with diastematomyelia, a rare disorder related to spina bifida.
"We found something on your MRI," a voice said. So Cannon went to a specialist who ordered a scan of her spine. She'd pretty much given up on finding an answer for her pain until her fiancé, Cole Chiumento, pushed her to try one more time. But they couldn't explain what was going on. "There was a lot of pain in my back, which I thought was, you know, just something everybody lived with."Ĭannon saw lots of doctors over the years. "There was a lot of pain in my legs, which I can now recognize as nerve pain," she says. "And none of that I could ever do before."įor the first 24 years of her life, Cannon's activities were limited by chronic pain and muscle weakness. "It's a lot of bending over and lifting the wheelbarrow and putting stakes in the ground," the 26-year-old says as she surveys the tomatillos, cherry tomatoes and eggplants growing in raised beds behind her house in Austin, Texas. Spinal surgery made it possible for Liv Cannon to plant her first vegetable garden.
Since her spinal surgery, Liv Cannon has been able to work in the garden and play with her energetic dogs without having to worry about pain.
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