Grr Hamsters…
I had a movie that I’d been trying to figure out for years, finally came up with the answer this morning.
Saw it in school in the early 90’s, but it was older then that. Girl jumps off a pier, breaks her neck and ends up paralyzed. Other then that, the two things I remember are a mean nurse at the beginning who would flip her bed really fast (so she wouldn’t get bed sores) and the bed would make this awful ratcheting sound and a (nice) doctor later on that chiseled away part of her hip bone that was bothering her without anesthetics since she had no feeling there.
I figured out it was Joni, in the trailer, you can see the bed I was talking about
As for why I watched it in school, it must have been in religion class since, from what I can tell from one of the reviews of the movie and skipping around in an interview with the IRL Joni she went through a loss of faith and then came back around to God. So the movie must have been more about that then the accident and subsequent rehab.