A 17-year-old teenager, who was bitten by a shark at a Florida beach Thursday, is undergoing a second round of surgery Saturday in the hope of saving her leg, according to officials.
Addison Bethea was scalloping when the sharp-toothed underwater carnivore attacked her, biting her multiple times before her brother jumped in to fend off the creature, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said. She underwent emergency surgery Thursday and is expected to survive."Addison has a long journey to recovery, but she was in good spirits today, surrounded by her family in Tallahassee Memorial’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Her brother Rhett Willingham, who works as a firefighter, managed to separate her from the shark. He put a tourniquet on her leg to stem the blood loss and was also assisted by other boaters and locals in the area, per officials. Bethea was then airlifted to the hospital.
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