We appreciate all of the support and Addison wanted me to tell you thank you as well.”Īddison’s mother, Michelle Murphy, also posted about her daughter’s terrifying ordeal on Facebook. “She isn’t out of the woods by any stretch, but she is alive and that’s what’s most important to us. “She was in good spirits and cracking jokes about beating up the shark,” he said. Shane and Addison Bethea posing together. Keds, Puma, Asics and Brooks: Save up to 40 at Zappos, Nordstrom Rack and Amazon. The doctors are unsure at this point as to the condition of the leg and want to take it day by day to see what will have to be done.”Īddison was sedated until Friday morning when she regained consciousness and communicated with her parents through her phone - and quickly requested a Wendy’s frosty, Bethea said. The shark’s name comes from the fact that it spins through the water vertically when trying to feed. “There is an unreal amount of damage to her thigh area. “The nerve on the back of her thigh was damaged severely,” Bethea said. Facebook/Addison Betheaīethea was then airlifted to a Tallahassee hospital, where she now faces a long road to recovery. The shark attack happened at Keaton Beach in Taylor County, Florida. “Rhett put a tourniquet on her leg to minimize blood loss to the massive injury and kept her awake, ultimately saving her life,” he wrote.
The brave brother then dragged his suffering sibling into the boat of a passing stranger. Her brother Rhett then gallantly stepped in to help, battering the shark until it finally loosened its grip, Bethea wrote. “She tried poking it in the eyes and punching it but it would not turn loose.” Addison Bethea poses with her father Shane. “The shark bit her once and then attacked her again on her right thigh,” he wrote. The shaken dad said Addison was scalloping at Keaton Beach in Taylor County in shallow waters when the 9-foot predator suddenly attacked. “Please pray for her and the difficulty of her days ahead.” “She’s been through more than I could ever imagine but she is being a trooper,” Shane Bethea said of his daughter, Addison Bethea, on Facebook. The father of a Florida teen who lost part of her leg in a harrowing shark attack said she bravely attempted to fight off the monster - even landing a punch. Massive 50-foot ‘megalodon’ detected in Atlantic Ocean stuns scientists Jaws-ome: Shocking moment shark leaps aboard a Maine fishing boatĭead Oklahoma inmate was suing over ‘Baby Shark’ claim Bizarre deep sea shark shocks fisherman: ‘stuff of nightmares’
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