Toni-Claire Miller, a single mother of two from Kent, was 32 years told when she was repeatedly “fobbed off” by GPs after complaining of numbness in her legs, excruciating back pain and bladder problems in 2018.
When her Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) was finally identified in hospital, a surgeon initially decided she did not need the appropriate surgery.
Multiple medical errors, evidenced in a high court case where Ms Miller received a substantial payout from the NHS in 2024, have left her living in constant pain.
Ms Miller told the PA mews agency: “I’m in pain all the time. There’s no let up, and along with the spinal cord injury, there’s severe nerve damage.
“So you have electric shocks, you get cramps, you get spasms, obviously my bowel and bladder are permanently paralysed so along w