04/20/2007 Chad Guthrie (Florida)
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:36 am
Shark bites former Titusville resident
BY AUTUMN PHELPS
Shark bite. Chad Guthrie, 24, spent five hours in surgery at Halifax Hospital in Daytona on Friday night after a shark bite.
One of the last things a recently graduated medical doctor would want is to suffer a shark bite to the hand.
Unfortunately for Chad Guthrie, 24, that’s exactly what happened Friday night while surfing in New Smyrna Beach.
The former Astronaut High School student, now a doctor of physical therapy practicing in New Smyrna Beach, spent five hours in surgery at Halifax Hospital in Daytona on Friday night. According to his grandmother, Ellen Baker of Titusville, the shark “ripped open his left hand and incurred serious injury to the thumb and first two fingers,” she wrote in an email.
Guthrie is scheduled to undergo another surgery Sunday morning. His mother, Rachel Greene of Titusville, spent Saturday morning at the hospital with her son.
“We don’t know the extent of the damage yet,” Greene said by phone. “Hopefully with rehabilitation he will make a full recovery.”
Greene said her son, a longtime surfer, described the shark that bit him as a 4- to 5-foot bull shark. A woman on the beach witnessed the attack and helped Guthrie stop the bleeding.
“It could have been a lot worse,” Baker said.
Greene said despite the attack, her son is in good spirits, and plans to get back out on his board once his hand is healed.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.d ... 21012/1086
BY AUTUMN PHELPS
Shark bite. Chad Guthrie, 24, spent five hours in surgery at Halifax Hospital in Daytona on Friday night after a shark bite.
One of the last things a recently graduated medical doctor would want is to suffer a shark bite to the hand.
Unfortunately for Chad Guthrie, 24, that’s exactly what happened Friday night while surfing in New Smyrna Beach.
The former Astronaut High School student, now a doctor of physical therapy practicing in New Smyrna Beach, spent five hours in surgery at Halifax Hospital in Daytona on Friday night. According to his grandmother, Ellen Baker of Titusville, the shark “ripped open his left hand and incurred serious injury to the thumb and first two fingers,” she wrote in an email.
Guthrie is scheduled to undergo another surgery Sunday morning. His mother, Rachel Greene of Titusville, spent Saturday morning at the hospital with her son.
“We don’t know the extent of the damage yet,” Greene said by phone. “Hopefully with rehabilitation he will make a full recovery.”
Greene said her son, a longtime surfer, described the shark that bit him as a 4- to 5-foot bull shark. A woman on the beach witnessed the attack and helped Guthrie stop the bleeding.
“It could have been a lot worse,” Baker said.
Greene said despite the attack, her son is in good spirits, and plans to get back out on his board once his hand is healed.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.d ... 21012/1086