Texas shark attack victim shares painful hospital update after predator ripped part of her leg off - then watched from distance as she was pulled to shore

A Texas shark onslaught unfortunate has shared a gruesome update aft nan predator ripped disconnected a chunk of her leg.

Tabatha Sullivent was 1 of 4 group attacked by nan aforesaid shark astatine South Padre Island connected July 4th - including her husband. 

Now, she's sharing her harrowing travel to betterment from her infirmary bed.

'There are astir 4 of america successful nan water. I had immoderate teenagers pinch me. My daughter, 15, was pinch maine arsenic well. And each I saw was thing grey successful nan water,' Sullivent recalled to KSAT.

The scary unfolded erstwhile Sullivent spotted what she thought was a 'huge fish' successful nan water, which was successful truth a slayer shark.

'I thought, 'Oh my God! It's a immense fish.' And it was coming astatine us, truthful I kicked astatine it, and that's erstwhile I deliberation it grabbed my leg,' she added. 

Her heroic hubby fought nan shark, and ended up getting bitten doubly successful nan process.

Describing nan symptom aft getting bit, she said, 'It's for illustration I could consciousness numbness, I guess, is nan champion measurement to picture it.' 

Despite nan incident, Sullivent has remained positive.

'I would opportunity somebody, aliases something, was decidedly looking complete us,' she told nan outlet.

'I've stayed affirmative passim this ordeal. My family has been adjacent by my broadside taking attraction of maine while successful nan hospital. My friends person been amazing, taking attraction of nan location and animals, getting meals fresh for our return home. We person a awesome support group,' she wrote.

Sullivent was successful nan water on South Padre Island with her girl and hubby erstwhile nan shark began hunting them.

She said they were retired past a soil barroom erstwhile nan shark followed her to shallow h2o and attacked her.

'I turned around, and each I saw was thing grey successful nan water. So, I conscionable kicked astatine it, because I thought it was a immense fish, and it was coming astatine us. That's erstwhile I deliberation it grabbed my leg,' Sullivent told CBS News Texas from her infirmary bed. 

The bull shark - a animal pinch 1 of nan strongest bites successful nan animal kingdom  sank its teeth into her little limb pinch nary volition of letting go.

Sullivent said her hubby valiant fought disconnected nan beast, jumping into nan h2o and grabbing her. 

In nan process, he was bitten doubly arsenic well. 

Beachgoers pulled her retired of nan water, and first responders were soon connected nan segment tending to her gaping wound. 

'If my hubby didn't jump into action and everyone other connected nan beach, if I didn't person group pulling maine retired - not conscionable to propulsion maine retired but jumping betwixt nan shark and maine - I don't deliberation it would've stopped,' she said. 

A full of 4 group encountered nan shark successful nan water, according to first reports. The Sullivents were spot and while 2 others escaped pinch insignificant injuries. 

Social media footage of nan onslaught shows Sullivent laying connected nan soil while a dorsal fin tin beryllium seen swimming backmost and distant adjacent nan shoreline.

Blood from her coiled tin beryllium seen turning nan h2o a acheronian red, while first responders wrap a tourniquet astir her leg.

'My limb is beautiful overmuch gone,' she told FOX Dallas-Fort Worth astir a time aft nan attack. 

'They flushed it retired today. It's each nan measurement to nan bone. It did not spell done nan bone.' 

Sullivent will request aggregate reconstructive surgeries, but doctors are optimistic that she'll beryllium capable to support her limb and locomotion again.