Article 6NDSE Teen survives Florida shark attack but loses hand and leg: ‘I made it’

Teen survives Florida shark attack but loses hand and leg: ‘I made it’

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Gloria Oladipo and Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Doctors and other medical professionals vacationing on the beach helped save teen's life after a shark bit her

The mother of a Florida teen who lost her leg and hand in a shark attack recently said the girl's first words after waking up from her brutal ordeal were: I made it".

Lulu Gribbin, from Mountain Brook, Alabama, was one of three people who were injured in a spate of shark attacks Friday at Rosemary beach in Florida's Walton county, in the western part of the state.

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