A 13-year-old girl who was bitten by a shark over Memorial Day weekend is out of surgery and is doing fine, WFTV's Tim Barber tweeted Friday.
Alysa Whetro of Seminole County was bitten Sunday while swimming off the coast of Cocoa Beach to celebrate her birthday.
"When it bit me, I felt like a pain, like a sharp pain, and then I pulled my foot up," Alysa said.
Alysa's father was down the beach when he noticed a crowd gathering around his daughter.
"In a horror movie, in that moment when they open the door and it's a complete fright, that is what she looked like," he said.
Surgeons put a graft from an umbilical cord on her Achilles tendon to help her get back on her feet.
But unlike other horror movies, Alysa's story has a happy ending.
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