A nursing assistant survived a 40ft fall out of her fourth floor apartment window after knocking back vodka and whiskey.

Megan Heidgerd, 22, landed on the concrete patio of her apartment building's swimming pool in Pensacola, Florida, USA, last Thursday.

She broke her right foot and knee, sliced open her left leg and sustained head injuries which required 20 stitches.

The hospital worker, from Cheshire, Connecticut, blamed the horror fall on mixing her prescribed Prozac medication with booze and feared she was going to die as she plunged to the ground.

She said: "I was trying to grab the building as I was falling.

"I hit the concrete with my head and I didn't black out right away.

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"I thought I was going to die.

"I said to myself: 'This is it'."

Megan began taking Prozac two weeks before the accident last Thursday and admitted that she didn't follow advice to avoid drinking while taking the medication.

She was prescribed Prozac after she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

She said: "I've never been on Prozac before.

"I know that you are not supposed to mix meds and alcohol but I didn't think about it, or I didn't really care."

Megan cannot recall exactly how much she drank in the course of the evening with her friend.

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She said at some point, the group switched from vodka to Fireball, a cinnamon-flavored whiskey, adding: "I remember being cautious because even without meds, you shouldn't drink too much.

At roughly midnight, Megan's friends went to see other friends in the apartment building and Megan was left alone in her roommate's bedroom.

She tried to open the window to get some air and, in her drunken state, she slipped out and plummeted to the ground.

She said: "It's really fuzzy to remember.

"I was opening the window to get some air.

"When you are drunk, you don't know what you are doing.

"I slipped – I was trying to grab the building as I was falling."

On her way down to the ground, her leg caught on a wooden fence which paramedics believe saved her life.

She said: "There's a wooden fence around the pool area and they say that my leg caught that.

"They think that's what saved me.

"I was still awake when I landed.

"I was trying to crawl around for someone to find me.

"I'm not sure who did find me."

When Megan woke up, she was in Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida.

She said: "I woke up after they had done the surgery on my leg.

"Doctors told me I'd broken three bones in my foot and broken my knee.

"The other leg caught the fence and it went through to the bone."

She added that she was inspired to share her experience so that others won't make the same mistake she did.

"Don't drink if you are taking antidepressants.

"It's not like normal drinking It really messes with your judgement.

"It throws you off."

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