Shark attack victim goes back to work, not water

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    Re: Shark attack victim goes back to work, not water

    infoshark - 02.07.2007, 20:47

    Shark attack victim goes back to work, not water
    Shark attack victim goes back to work, not water

    Australien- SHARK attack survivor Matt McIntosh still has flashbacks of his attack, but that has not stopped him returning to work months ahead of schedule.

    Matt, 26, of Goonellabah, has been back working in his job as a carpenter for the past eight weeks, just over three months after a shark bit his foot at Ballinas Angels Beach on February 3.

    They said it was going to be about eight months until I go back to work but the doctor was pretty happy with how everything was going and said that I could go back to work just doing, you know, light stuff, he said.

    And although he is still not 100 per cent, Ive adjusted to it with my work and its fine.

    My boss is great.
    I just wanted everything to get back to normal because just being at home was really getting me down, he said. Despite his faster than expected recovery, Matt said he had no plans to get back in the water any time soon.

    More so just because I dont feel confident enough to be able to surf with it, he said.

    And also, it sort of freaks me out a little bit. Maybe just not being 100 per cent keeps me away from it at the moment. When Christmas time comes around Ill probably be out there.

    I have flashbacks all the time. Thoughts of it, what could have happened. Theyve been playing shark bloody shows on TV recently. It doesnt do it justice. Matt was lucky the shark didnt break his bone or he would have lost more blood and possibly his foot.

    He was in a cast for three months then underwent extensive physiotherapy.

    They did a nerve study and they said the nerve that was injured, that was severed, is completely gone and the chances of getting my feeling back in my foot are very slim, like 50 per cent, he said.

    Nonetheless, he will see his surgeon, Dr Richard Hudson, in the next two weeks, to conduct another nerve study to determine if the nerves are healing, and discuss microsurgery options.

    Its worth my while doing it if I can get some sort of feeling back. But its not hindering my life at all. I havent changed anything. I can still walk, run. Im fine. I do a lot of heavy lifting at work and it hasnt slowed me down at all.

    The doctors were pretty positive and everything so I didnt get any negative thoughts of it at all. I just wanted to get out and get on with getting back to 100 per cent.

    The morning that it happened it was dark and gloomy and the fish  the smell in the air  bait fish and the birds and everything, were just bad signs, signs all around.

    You see it, look at it now and you think why did I go out there, but because Id been doing it for 13 years you become naive to it.

    You dont even think about all that sort of stuff, all youre concentrating on is the waves. Itll be all right. Give it a few years, I should be over it.

    At least Ive still got my foot and Im still here. Ive got my family and everything. Im more thankful for that I suppose.

    Quelle: Northern Star



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