Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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base were already arriving by helicopter, who airlifted her to hospital barely clinging to life.
One of the crew, paramedic David Lewis, remembered: “She wasn’t even really bleeding any more, by that point she had really lost all of her blood.”
Another, Justine Myers, says: “I lifted up her leg at one point and my first thought was that there was a chance her leg would come off.”
And Dusty, too, thought she wouldn’t make it. “She was a completely grey colour that looked like she was already dead,” he says. “I never told her I’d loved her until then.”
Leeanne says: “It was the first time he’d ever told me that.
“And I was thinking, ‘of all the times, this is the time you picked to tell me you love me?’ But at least if I had died I would have heard it.”
Leeanne spent nine weeks in intensive care, undergoing eight surgeries, blood transfusions and skin grafts.
Despite her miraculous escape, she had to teach herself to walk again and still has no feeling in her injured leg.
DENVER Struwig and wife Kristy were just home from their honeymoon when they decided to celebrate with a surf.
As he waited to catch a last wave off South Africa’s Chintsa beach, what is believed to be a great white struck.
Speaking about that day in September 2011, Denver, 37, says: “I was sitting there and this shark comes underneath. As I put my legs down the shark hit me.
“It grabbed the back of my shoulder and the front of my abdomen before swimming down to the seabed with me. I
She says: “Most of my hamstring and my glutes are gone, my quad is gone, pretty much everything has gone. They took skin from my left leg to close the wounds on my right.
“There’s no cushion over my hip joint anymore so I can only lay on my side for so long, sit for so long, stand for so long. But I thank God that I didn’t lose my leg, or my life.”
Sharkfest is on National Geographic WILD until Sunday, July 26.