All that Greymouth woman Brittany Kremers has wanted is to live a normal life and to look and feel normal, but she’s lived with pain and facial disfigurement for two decades after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer as a child.
Brittany hoped a prosthetic would mean she could lead a more normal life, but ACC has declined her claim to fund post-surgery treatment. She remains in painful medical limbo.
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