A bachelorette party turned tragic for bride-to-be Rachelle Friedman of North Carolina. The 25-year-old was planning to get married on June 27 to her fiance Chris Chapman. But the bachelorette party in Virginia Beach a month before the wedding changed that.

Friedman’s best friend jokingly pushed her into a swimming pool and Friedman hit her head on the bottom of the pool. “It was playful, but it went wrong,” Friedman told ABC News recently.  “It was a freak accident.”She told reporters she couldn’t move and her body went stiff. Turns out Friedman suffered a C6 spinal cord injury which means she can feel almost nothing below her neck and she may never walk again.

The former dance and aerobics instructor is not giving up hope that she’ll be able to marry her fiance one day. The reason she’s put off the wedding for now is because they say as a married couple their combined income would be too high to qualify for Medicaid, which Friedman says she needs to pay for constant care and rehabilitation.