Apr
10
One story that has stuck with me for several years has been the one that follows. No one ever believes me when I tell it, so I am putting it here where I can find it, and leaving it in the words of the source with a link so that next time I tell it to someone, I can say, “You don’t believe me? Well go look it up here…”
Boy has his arm stitched back on after shark attack
A boy of eight who was mauled by a shark is recovering in hospital after a dramatic rescue operation. Jessie Arbogast had his right arm bitten off and a leg badly gashed as he swam in waist-deep waters off a beach in Florida.
He had lost almost all his blood by the time he had been flown to hospital. But astonishing bravery from his uncle and the emergency services meant he not only survived but had his arm recovered and reattached.
His uncle carried him to shore, gave him heart massage and, as Jessie was flown to hospital, went back into the water and wrestled the 7ft bull shark to the shore.
Next, a national park ranger shot the beached shark three times in the head to kill it.
He used his police baton to prise the shark’s mouth open and slit its throat so a lifeguard could retrieve the arm from down the shark’s throat. The arm was immediately packed in ice and driven at speed to a hospital where three surgeons worked for 12 hours to stitch the arm back.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-58901/Boy-arm-stitched-shark-attack.html
Or read about it here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000445,00.html
Or:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark
I was in pensacola with my son and mother the day this happened. It has been 10 years and I still remember his name and age and check on him every year. So anyone who doesn’t believe it. Look it up.