SYDNEY, June 25 (World Daily Times) — Leah Stewart briefly woke in intensive care after doctors reduced her sedation and removed her breathing tube following a shark attack at Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia, according to updates from her brother, Joshua Stewart. She told her mother and partner Fernando, “I love you.”
Joshua Stewart said Leah had spent 10 days in an induced coma after the June 13 attack and had undergone multiple surgeries. Family updates cited in reports said the treatment included surgery to remove her arm and address other serious injuries.
In a later update, Joshua Stewart said Leah was awake, no longer in critical condition and able to communicate with family and medical staff.
He also said Leah was reunited with her young daughter, August, for the first time since the incident, after the two had spent their first night apart.
