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A young cancer survivor has been left 'permanently giving the finger' after recovering from a rare spinal tumour.

Lauren Wagner, 26, said doctors berated her for sitting at her desk wrong, blaming her poor posture for her sudden back pain.

'I would have loved to just believe my backpain was because my workstation wasn't ergonomically friendly but it was actually one of the worst case scenarios for me,' the young Canadian revealed.  

Her back pain started in March 2020, right about the time she started working from home. By June it was very serious. 

'In that time I saw three doctors and was dismissed by all of them,' she said.

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It wasn't until she went to see a chiropractor who revealed her symptoms were 'worse than people who had been involved in severe car accidents' that she realised something much more sinister was going on.

She spoke to her doctor and requested an MRI, which was booked for the following August.

Within a few hours her doctor was calling to let her know the MRI had picked up a large mass on her spine.

'My heart just sank at the time,' she said admitting she went blank with the news.

'The scariest part is I was just weeks away from becoming permanently paralysed,' she said. 

The next few years would be 'the most traumatic' of her life.

'I am glad they found it when they did, but wish it had been found sooner,' she said.

Only one million cases of the tumour have been recorded. 

'Because of how rare it was, there were only two surgeons in Canada that would do the surgery. I was told it would be a very intense surgery, it was 23 hours long but they managed to remove the tumour. However I wasn't aware of the complications until afterwards.' 

She has had six spinal surgeries totaling over 60 hours to remove the mass, and say that along with complications has left her with the permanent hand

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