Mother of teenage shark attack victim provides recovery updates

Video above: An Alabama doctor shares his experience trying to save a teenager after a shark attack. Three people continue to heal after being injured Friday in two separate shark attacks along Florida's Gulf Coast. The attacks took place just four miles and 90 minutes apart. The second attack happened to two teenagers. Lulu Gribbin's mother shared her story on Caring Bridge to shed light on what happened and the recovery process. The most recent updates are at the top. On June 12, Anne Gribbin wrote that she and Lulu were being flown to another hospital after speaking with a multi-extremity amputee specialist. She said the rest of the surgeries and rehabilitation would have to be done at another hospital and thanked everyone who helped save her daughter.>> WHAT WE KNOW: Gulf Coast shark attacks June 10As she recovers, Lulu's mother says she is still herself. “Nothing about his personality or his funny and smart and loving personality has changed at all,” Anne Gribbin wrote in a June 10 blog post. “She may have lost her hand and her leg. , but she is here, and we are truly grateful.” June 9 “After lunch we were walking back to the beach to the girls and everyone on the beach was looking at the water,” wrote Anne Blair Gribbin. ” No one was in the water and all we heard was that there was a shark and we started looking too. “My friend called her two daughters and they weren't answering so she started panicking and said there was something wrong and started running and that's what we all did . “The beach was full of people looking at me. I came across a group of people surrounding someone on the ground and I looked down and it was Lulu.” >> PREVIOUS COVERAGE: 2 Mountain Brook teens, woman seriously injured in backs. – back-to-back shark attacks along Florida's Gulf Coast Lulu Gribbin was in surgery when the family went to the hospital, and her mother said she was told her hand had been bitten, her leg had been amputated and had lost 2/3 of the blood in her body. Her first words after the operation, her mother said, were: “I made it” Several people helped. to save her life, Anne Gribbin said. “Lulu said a man grabbed her other arm and pulled her and another younger boy helped carry her to shore.” , declared Anne Gribbon in her message. “Once on the shore, there were two doctors and two other young women including a nurse who surrounded Lulu. These individuals applied tourniquets to Lulu's wounds.” Community SupportTwo local stores are selling merchandise to help with Lulu Gribbin's recovery. Holland and BirchBandwagon Sports>> Mountain Brook supports shark attack victims with purple ribbons