‘DISABILITY DRIVES ME TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE’
Sophie Morgan, 38, from London, is an award-winning TV presenter, author and disability advocate.
My mum jokes that for somebody who’s paralysed, I can’t sit still. And she’s right. Disability has been my motivator, driving me to live life to the max and achieve things no one believed possible.
I was 18 when I had the accident that left me paralysed. I suddenly lost control of my car and crashed, breaking my back instantly. At one point I was pronounced dead.
When I awoke in intensive care, my jaw was wired, my eye had fallen out, and it wasn’t until the pain subsided that I noticed a lack of sensation when the nurses washed me. Over the next three months in hospital, I underwent facial surgery and my eye was fixed, but the full extent of my spinal injury became clear. I was paralysed from the chest down and told I’d
