A mother-of-three woke up paralysed from the neck down after falling out of bed while 'messing about' and doing bunny hops over her husband.
Sophie Rodgers, 44, partially severed her spinal cord after 'misjudging' a jump over 52-year-old Guy Rodgers and falling out of their double bed, knocking herself out in August 2019.
When the ex-supervisor for the National Trust woke up the next morning, she 'couldn't move anything' and was rushed to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, where she was told she would 'probably never walk again'.
She has since endured 'horrendous' nerve pain leaving her screaming each time she was touched and three operations, including one to fit titanium rods in her neck and another to have a stoma fitted.
Despite her bleak prognosis, Ms Rodgers was determined to walk out of hospital and left staff 'flabbergasted' when she did so three months later, after intense physio meant she could take a few painful steps.
Sophie Rodgers (pictured above), 44, partially severed her spinal cord after 'misjudging' a jump over Guy Rodgers, 52, and falling out of their double bed, knocking herself out in 2019
The mother-of-three from Ripon, North Yorkshire, pictured with her husband on their wedding day in August 2018, around one year before the accident took place
An X-ray taken of the titanium pins in Ms Rodgers' neck in September 2019. She has endured three operations, including one to have a stoma fitted
But Ms Rodgers claimed that, since leaving the hospital, she has been 'mourning the death of her body' and is forced to rely on her husband for help because she is unable to even go outside on her own for fear of being unable to get home.
In a bid to 'regain her life and independence', she is now fundraising £5,000 for a three-wheeled roadworthy scooter on GoFundMe that will mean she can get around by herself.
Ms Rodgers from Ripon, North Yorkshire, said: 'I was paralysed from the neck down after falling out of bed.
'I was mucking about and bunny hopping over my husband on my hands and knees and just being a wally messing in bed as you do, I misjudged a jump and fell off the bed.
'My hubby gets up at 4:30am and when he goes to sleep he just zonks out and he wasn't aware that I'd fallen off the bed.
'In hindsight I think I must have knocked myself out and I remember waking up and I thought my legs were really cold and I couldn't move them but at that point I could move my arms.
'I was trying to pull myself up on the bed with my legs not doing anything I couldn't and I tried to push myself down the side of my bed, to try to get to the end of it to pull myself up and it didn't work. Then I must have fallen and lost consciousness again or fallen asleep.
'My husband woke up at about 2:30am for his usual toilet break and he saw me on the floor and said "what are you doing down there?"
'I said "I'd fallen out of bed and I got so cold I can't bloody move anything, I can't even get up".
'I was a dead weight and he picked me up and put me to bed and then he went to the toilet and got back into bed and thought nothing of it, and we fell asleep.
The ex-supervisor for the National Trust (pictured hours after being admitted to ICU in 2019) was rushed to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough
An X-ray of Ms Rodgers' neck taken following the accident (pictured left) and two weeks after the operation on her neck in September 2019 (right)
'In the morning he woke up and was getting dressed and he said "come on, you're going to be late for work" and I just couldn't move anything.'
Ms Rodgers, who had just celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary with Guy, said she asked him to call an ambulance and initially thought she had a 'trapped nerve' because she couldn't move anything from her neck down.
She was taken to the intensive care unit and then the specialist spinal unit where days later she received the devastating news that she was unlikely to walk again.
Ms Rodgers said: 'A few days later he asked me to wiggle my toes and I think on the third or fourth day the tiniest tip on my right toe flickered.
'I remember them saying I will probably never walk again but they'll work hard to try and get movement from my waist up back.
'My husband looked at them and said 'you don't know my wife', because I'm very stubborn.
'I was just in autopilot. I was totally aware of the situation I was in and I was totally aware that I could possibly never ever walk or move again and when they said they'd try and get the top bit moving, I was fine.
Ms Rodgers, pictured before her injury in June 2018, spent three months in hospital
'Your brain's got a way of protecting you from things and I think it shut some parts off so you can deal with the important things. It's that fight or flight instinct.
'My nerve pain was that bad that I'd scream if anyone touched me because it felt like a hot poker touching me and I constantly felt like my skin was burning - it was the worst pain you could ever feel in your life.
'They have to roll you in hospital so you don't get bed sores and every time they'd say "Oh
