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THIS IS HUNTER Treschl, just two days after he lost an arm in a shark attack.
The teenager is sitting upright in his hospital bed casually chatting to reporters about his horrific experience.
Displaying an incredible level of pragmatism and calmness about his near fatal swim, the 16-year-old describes what it’s like to be attacked by a shark.
“We were just playing around in the waves, and I felt a hit on my left calf,” he says.
“I thought it felt like a big fish, and I started moving away. And then the shark bit my arm, off.”
Treschl said he was able to make it on to the beach in Oak Island, North Carolina, with the help of a cousin who’d been in the water with him. He said one of the people who ran to his aid had a belt with him that they used that to stop the bleeding.
Others, he said, “were all helping me kind of stay calm until the ambulance got there.”
Asked if he ever saw the shark, Treschl said he first felt it hit his left leg before it hit his arm.
“That was the first time I saw it, when it was biting up my left arm,” he responded.
The Colorado teen says he is going to try to live a normal life despite the loss of his dominant hand.
“I have two options: I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don’t have an arm, or I can just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it.”
“Out of those two, there’s really only one that I would actually choose and that’s to try to fight and live a normal life with the cards I’ve been dealt.”
A little more than an hour before the shark attacked Treschl, about two miles away, another shark attack took place.
North Carolina 12-year-old Kiersten Yow lost her left arm below the elbow and suffered a leg injury when a shark bit her.
Yow is in stable condition Tuesday at a local hospital according to a statement from her parents, Brian and Laurie Yow.
“She has a long road to recovery that will include surgeries and rehabilitation, but her doctors at UNC expect she will keep her leg, and for that we are grateful,” they said.
- With reporting from Associated Press
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You can access them alright so long as there is a bit of wifi in heaven. I’m sure there is.
And plenty of clouds for your storage ;-)
I’ve my gmail death emails written a few months now to a couple of friends. One person gets a link to a file I have with all my usernames/passwords to all important accounts. Was very weird writing them.
How will the email be sent if you’re dead? Have you arranged for someone to do that?
I’m going to leave all my usernames and passwords with my partner to do as he pleases with them. He knows them all anyway.
If your gmail account is inactive for more than 3 months it will auto send the email
That’s creepy but handy. How do you do it?
Its explained in this article under the Google section, click on inactive account manager.
Who cares your dead
Your family and next of kin will probably care.
Was weird as shit seeing a close friend of mine constantly in my friends list once she has passed away a few years ago. Her sister eventually deleted her account completely.
You get a life
The best answer is to have your user names/passwords in a sealed envelope with a trusted family member member/friend. Of course they change but keeping these documents updated is worth it. The easiest way for me to contact long-distance people after my mother died was through her email account, and about a month after her death I deactivated it. I was also able to access all of her online accounts, bills, and credit cards in order to close everything out.
Of course, doing all that after she died meant that I had full access before she died. But she trusted me. And I trusted her. It helped that I kept copies of my will, backups of all my photos, copies of passports and email addresses and passwords stored in a sealed envelope in a file cabinet at her house. She had full access to my life as well, and never took advantage of that information.
Mutual trust is needed to make this word. But after my mother died suddenly, this trust certainly helped to close her estate in a timely and respectful manner. Important
As an aside, “Arrange My World” is an Irish software company that deals in keeping/protecting/accessing passwords, important documents, etc. and is a great product that can help organise our digital lives.
I dunno I still keep my late fathers number in my phone – tried ringing it once and I think it may belong to someone else, if they rang me back I’d get a quare fright
Ditto. I think I’d be 6 feet under with him if someone with his number called me.
Awh bless
We all died many years ago many times.. What we are feeling now is just an illusion. Get over it and move on to the next digital wonderland and don’t dwell in the past or the future.
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