A teenage shark victim with attitude
A good attitude, I might add.
Just two days after the terrible moment when a shark bit off his arm, and after surgeons cleaned up the traumatic amputation and made it a surgical one, 16-year-old Hunter Treschl had this to say of the attack and the future:
“I didn’t see it coming,” he said.
Throughout the ordeal, he was conscious, and recalled being surrounded by 25 people in the hospital.
The staff “fixed my arm up,” he said. “Did a pretty good job of it too from what I hear.
“It feels good.”
Treschl said that in the wake of the traumatic event, he was faced with a choice.
“So I kind of have two options — I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don’t have an arm or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating,” he said.
“Out of those two, there’s really only one that I would choose to do and that’s to try and fight and live a normal life with the cards I’ve been dealt,” he said.
Somehow I think he will succeed—and more.
[ADDENDUM: If you’re interested in a comparison of which animals kill the most people in the US per year, see this. The biggest killer in terms of numbers is most definitely not sharks. Of course, the comparisons don’t take into account how often people encounter each type of animal listed.]
Them cows.
They don’t vote … yet!
Poor kid, how unlucky. June seems to be a red flag month for shark attack incidents. I recall a couple of years back a sweet faced 14 yr old girl, just graduated 8th grade suffered a fatal bite to the abdomen floating around on a board in the Gulf, that was followed in about a weeks time by a teenage boy also in the Gulf. Those sharks must swarm in late spring. Dangerous creatures !
Force majeure.
Doritos kill.
The young woman surfer who lost her arm to a shark attack a few years ago is in the news — she just had a baby! I hope she can be an inspiration to him and to the other kid who was attacked.
I was struck by how motor vehicle deaths have dropped so much in my lifetime.
Especially when calculated on a per-mile basis.
If you’re interested in a comparison of which animals kill the most people in the US per year, see this. The biggest killer in terms of numbers is most definitely not sharks.
I can definitely vouch for the danger of cattle. When my 75 year old uncle was taking some bales of hay out to his cattle, one of his cattle knocked him down. My uncle broke his hip, but was able to use his cell phone to call an ambulance. My uncle’s hip was broken. After several weeks in the hospital, he was scheduled to go home and begin therapy, but died of a massive heart attack. Cattle didn’t directly kill him, but definitely harmed him.
I know of more than one person over 60 who has broken a bone as a consequence of having an obstreperous dog on a leash.
Similarly, my cousin, who had ridden horses for over a half century, decided that for her own safety she had better stop.
Wow. Strong constitution.
Lee:
Her story is life-affirming, twice. Awesome.
My old Swedish Grandfather, a life long farmer, told me to never turn my back on pigs.
Democrats are porcine?