A horrifying accident caught on video during a trip to Mexico has left a Los Angeles makeup artist with critical injuries and in desperate need of help to return home.<\/p>\n
It started as a fun birthday trip to Mexico and ended in a terrifying and life-threatening accident that has left the 29-year-old hospitalized and struggling to figure out when and how she will be able to come back home to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Nina Bakhshizadeh’s terrifying fall was captured on camera by her own cellphone. She landed 22 feet below a wooden bridge in the Mexican jungle.<\/p>\n
“I was awake the whole time. You know how you sleep sometimes, and you fall in your dream, and you wake up? It was like that,” Bakhshizadeh said in a Zoom interview from her hospital bed. “When I fell, like, it was the longest and the shortest fall of my life.”<\/p>\n
She’s now in a hospital in Canc\u00fan, where she’s recovering from emergency back surgery.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old, her boyfriend and family members were all celebrating her birthday when the trip took a life-threatening turn.<\/p>\n
It happened on Sunday as Bakhshizadeh was riding an ATV with her boyfriend on a guided tour.<\/p>\n
“His tire got stuck to the wire of the bridge… and then we flipped, the car flipped. My boyfriend got stuck in the wire. But I fell down off the bridge,” Bakhshizadeh recalled. “I was asking all the gods I knew to give me another chance. I could feel the pain, so I knew that there was something wrong.”<\/p>\n
Unable to walk, Bakhshizadeh was carried out of the ravine on a board. With no ambulance available, she was driven to the hospital in the back of a truck.<\/p>\n
She now has a broken neck and back.<\/p>\n
“I’m very, very, very lucky to be able to walk again, hopefully soon, because… I was about to be paralyzed,” she said.<\/p>\n