Woman, 23, left with horror injuries after accidentally falling out of window and plunging 40ft to the ground in Manchester
A young woman feared paralysed after breaking her back, legs and pelvis and shattering her ankle in 30 places after falling out of a fourth storey window has taken her first steps just three months on from the horrific accident. Sophie Bracken, 23, was feeling sick at the end of her friend's birthday night out, so went to the window at the Manchester city centre apartment to get some fresh air.
"I remember hitting the ground and feeling my back break. I remember worrying more about my family and how I was going to get in touch with my mum, rather than my injuries. Desperate to stay with her daughter, Rachel had been sleeping on hard benches, plastic chairs and even windowsills in the hospital as she couldn't afford the hotel stay in Manchester and didn't want to keep making the daily six-hour return journey on public transport. But after being moved on by hospital security in the early hours one morning, a nurse told Rachel about Day One Trauma Support.
"It meant I could stay in Manchester. I was able to give Sophie so much more support, knowing I only had a six-minute bus ride back to the hotel. If Day One hadn't have been there, it would have been a different story. It would have been harder for Sophie, but 10 times harder for me."
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