The Medical Reason Why Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller Uses A Wheelchair

In 2018, Abby Lee Miller had to start using an electric wheelchair, per People. According to The U.S. Sun, the reality TV personality is paraplegic. She suffers from Burkitt lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that impacts her spinal cord. Miller received the diagnosis following surgery for what was initially thought to be a spinal infection.

In April 2022, Miller took to Instagram to recall her final days of walking. She shared two photos of her face in seemingly gut-wrenching pain, detailing her tragic story alongside it. In the caption, she noted that April 13, 2018 was the last time she walked. She wrote, "On Friday the 13th, 2018 techs had to remove me from the imaging machine after 15 minutes because my arms & legs were flailing about uncontrollably!" From that point on, things only got worse. Miller added, "Over the next 24 hours my blood pressure dropped to 23 over 17, my Kidneys started to fail, and I became paralyzed from the Neck down. It was too late to transfer me...Emergency surgery had to be performed...I have never walked on my own again."

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