A massive disc herniation was identified as the cause of the speaker's paralysis and severe pain, compressing the cauda equina.

“they had an ambulance waiting for me and he said that there's a massive what they believe was a discarnation because it was so big they didn't know what it was and I'm just like thinking to myself oh my goodness I have a tumor you know what is happening to me um so this is in the level at the level of the spinal cord you had something in I yeah so the so the spinal cord ends I believe it's like L L1 somewhere around there and then you have a s tail of all these uh nerve Tangles that Nate bowel bladder uh the feet all the muscles and the legs and this was just crushed”