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CANC\u00daN, Mexico (KABC) — <\/span>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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

With no travel insurance, her family was forced to come up with more than $50,000 for her surgery. A GoFundMe has been set up to help with expenses and to get her back home.<\/p>\n

Bakhshizadeh says she can’t believe her phone recorded the frightening ordeal and is counting her blessings.<\/p>\n

“Appreciate your health. Hug your loved ones, and if you can walk, go take a walk,” Bakhshizadeh said. “Take some air, enjoy life. It’s shorter than what you think.”<\/p>\n

She is hoping she will be able to return home in about two weeks once she is able to sit upright.<\/p>\n

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Bakhshizadeh has one warning for other travelers: make sure you get travel insurance, because you never know what may happen.<\/p>\n

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