A nurse who rushed to help Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas after she fell 130 feet from a bridge without a bungee cord says the 21-year-old was still alive when she reached her on the ground.
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"I saw that she was breathing heavily, and I looked at her pupils, which unfortunately were both dilated, and felt her pulse. It was very weak, but she still had a pulse," nurse Rayza Dias told Brazilian TV network Domingo Espetacular on Sunday.
Dias scrambled down steep, muddy terrain, injuring her hands in the process. "I scraped my whole hand because there's a steep slope down there and only one rope for us to climb down. It was all covered in mud. I kept going down, down; we walked all the way," she said.
When she reached the victim, she spoke to her. "I have a habit of joking and saying, 'Nobody dies on my shift.' And I told her, 'Duda [Eduarda], nobody dies on my shift.' Even though I wasn't on my shift there," Dias said.
