I found this site< and it's full of great stories about how SCI people get on with their lives after SCI.
Newly married, Jenna and her husband were driving home in rural Michigan when their pick-up truck rolled over and she was ejected from the truck, breaking her back and injuring her spinal cord.
It's full of great stories like these
Seventeen-year-old Laetitia always loved horses and riding. She grew up learning how to ride. While on a routine ride with her sister in Beirut, she fell from her horse and suffered a severe spinal cord injury, leaving her completely paralyzed from the neck down.