$90,000 gone overnight: mother with spinal injury fights to save NDIS funding

A young Hunter mother left with a spinal cord injury after surgery complications is fighting to stop almost $90,000 being stripped from her NDIS plan, after a review was triggered by nothing more than a routine request for a portable commode.

Kurri Kurri mother Maddie Roberts, 32, survived a cardiac arrest, but was left with a spinal cord injury after complications during surgery.