Shark attack survivor Lulu Gribbin plays golf with prosthetic arm, leg
“It was great being out here and great being with the other adaptive golfers,” said Gribbin, after her second day at the PING USDGA Championship in Port St. Lucie.
PORT ST. LUCIE – Two years ago, Lulu Gribbin and friends were swimming at Seacrest Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast, searching for sand dollars, when a friend screamed the dreaded word. “Shark!
” A bull shark had attacked the group. When the 15-year-old Gribbin looked down, she could see flesh on her arm. The shark had bitten her twice.
Beachgoers helped get her out of the water and tourniquets were applied. Gribbin was life-flighted to Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola where her left hand and right leg, just above the knee, were amputated. She almost lost her life – she had lost two-thirds of her blood.
More golf: Alex Fitzpatrick's PGA Tour win means he can join golf's 'royalty' “I made it,” were the first words she said to her parents, Joe and Ann Blair, when she awoke at the hospital. She later said, “One leg and one arm don’t define who I am. ” Gribbin was an all-around athlete growing up in Birmingham, Ala.
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