This morning on my way to work I turned on Newstalk ZB to find that Madeleine and her recent ACC victory were the topic of Leighton Smith’s morning show – Kerre McIvor was filling in. Madeleine ended up speaking to Kerre on air – you can listen here: Or download here: NewstalkZB have also reported on the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Car Accident'
Madeleine speaking to Kerre McIvor on Newstalk ZB re Flannagan v ACC
September 12th, 2013 24 Comments
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Newstalk ZB
Flannagan v ACC – Victory
September 12th, 2013 13 Comments
Long time readers of this blog will remember than 5 1/2 years ago I was in a car accident that saw me suffer a herniated cervical (neck) disc and require disc replacement surgery. Readers will also be aware that the pain I lived (live) with did not end after that surgery and that when the […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Flannagan v ACC: 5 Years on, an Update
March 23rd, 2013 5 Comments
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 it will be 5 years since I was in a car accident that destroyed a cervical disc and saw me need surgery to have an artificial disc inserted and which left me with an ongoing pain condition and a habit of dropping things and having tingly episodes in my hands – still! […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
ACC Wars: Deja Vu? (Tribunal Result Update)
April 20th, 2011 10 Comments
On the eve of my hearing tomorrow [finally!] against the Accident Compensation Corporation (“ACC”) this appeared in today’s New Zealand Herald: “An Auckland man has won his battle against ACC after a court found its specialist diagnosed degeneration without having looked at an MRI scan of the injury.” Guess who the specialist was? The SAME […]
Tags: ACC · Brian Otto · Car Accident
Getting Back in the Saddle
December 16th, 2009 2 Comments
In March 2008 I was in a car accident that severely damaged my neck, saw me have disc replacement surgery and to this day sees me in pain and unable to work full-time. To say this has been life changing is an understatement. I have lost a lot, my family has lost a lot but […]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Equestrian · Horse Riding · Riding for the Disabled · TARPS
Re The Pain in my Neck
October 27th, 2009 7 Comments
I have just come from seeing my orthopedic surgeon to get the results of my recent MRI scan (following injuries sustained in a car accident in March 08). He has recommended more surgery. He wants to remove the disc replacement that was done Dec 08 and replace it with a spinal fusion. I am pretty […]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Spinal Fusion
My Story: Lousy ACC Cover and Thoughts on the Proposed Changes
October 22nd, 2009 68 Comments
Yesterday I applied for and got a one week extension on my research project as I couldn’t keep up with the necessary pace to finish it by Friday – I was getting too sore. This means that open mic week(s) needs to continue a little longer so please bear with us and do submit a […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
