Mother of teen victim of rare double shark attack gives update on her daughter

• Ann Blair Gribbin, mother of June 7 shark attack victim Lulu Gribbin, confirmed that her daughter had surgery for amputations on her left hand and right leg in a blog post.
• Ann said Lulu was 'on alert' after waking up from the attack in hospital
• Lulu will undergo further surgeries for her injuries as she continues to recover, her mother explained in the blog post.

The mother of a teenage victim of Florida's double shark attack is sharing news about her daughter after undergoing surgery for her injuries following the incident.

In a blog post published Monday (June 10), Ann Blair Gribbin confirmed that her daughter Lulu Gribbin was “alert” and “chatting” after undergoing surgery to have her left hand and part of her right leg amputated by the shark attack in Seacrest Beach, Florida on Friday, June 7.

“What I witnessed was Lulu being there. Nothing about her personality or her funny, smart personality has changed at all,” Ann explained on Caring Bridge. She may have lost her hand and her leg, but she's here, and we're truly grateful.”

Ann said Lulu underwent “the first of a long 'surgery' to clean the wounds” and “close the amputations”, adding that Lulu “did well” in the process. She said doctors were also looking for shark teeth and that Lulu told her she “wanted them” if she found them.

Ann explained how she and her husband were “amazed” at their daughter’s “level of alertness”. She also revealed that the family met the two men who saved Lulu's life by removing the shark from her and bringing her to shore.

“It was great to express to them both how eternally grateful we are that they were so brave to go into the waters with a shark to save our sweet daughter,” she wrote of the meeting. “Lulu was able to tell them, 'Thank you for saving my life.' Lulu is here!”

Lulu reached “another milestone” when doctors removed her central line, which was placed under her right shoulder and connected “internally to her heart,” through which the medication passed. Ann shared that Lulu “wants to be a doctor” and asked to look at the lines being removed.

Ann added that Lulu was ditching a “clear” diet. “Today she ate applesauce, Jello, Gatorade and the best pop bomb she's ever had!!”

Lulu was one of three victims attacked by a shark on two Florida beaches on June 7. Lulu and the second teenage girl she was with were attacked just before 3 p.m. local time at Seacrest Beach. A 45-year-old woman was also attacked around her abdomen and pelvis while swimming near the first sandbar at Watersound Beach, Florida, around 1:20 p.m., according to ABC News and WBRC.

Ann explained in her first blog post about her daughter's condition after the June 9 attack that she, Lulu and her twin sister Ellie had traveled to the beach from Birmingham, Alabama, more early last week during their “first mother-daughter trip.” alongside “some of their friends and their mothers”.

On June 7, Ann said she and the group headed “outside Rosemary Beach for lunch”, after which they noticed “the girls and everyone on the beach looking at the water” . Moments later, Ann remembers seeing Lulu's “lifeless” body on the beach.

“I came across a group of people surrounding someone on the ground and I looked down and it was Lulu who was there. Ellie found me and said, “Mom, it’s Lulu.” I saw his leg injuries and started screaming. She was lifeless, her eyes closed, her mouth white and pale,” she wrote. “The wound on her leg, or whatever was left of her leg, was something out of a movie.”

Lulu was then flown to Sacred Heart in Pensacola, Florida, to undergo surgery after the shark “bite her hand and then her leg” during the attack, before biting her friend's foot.

On Saturday, June 8, Ann revealed that Lulu began “breathing on her own” and woke up that day to uttering her first words: “'I made it.' »

Despite the “terrible accident,” Ann said she believed “God was there and had the people there” to help save her daughter’s life. “It really is a miracle,” the mother said of her daughter. “We have a long way to go and our journey has only just begun!”

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CNN previously reported that David Vaughn, director of beach safety for the South Walton Fire District (SWFD), said it was possible the same shark was involved in both attacks.