Woman attacked by shark at Coogee beach wakes briefly from coma to say three words

A woman attacked by a shark at Sydney’s Coogee beach has uttered her first words after waking from a coma 10 days after sustaining her injuries. “I love you,” Leah Stewart told her mother and partner after being extubated on Tuesday. She was bitten by a great white shark on 13 June . Stewart has had five days of surgeries – including an arm amputation – with more to come, her brother Josh Stewart wrote on a fundraising page. “After a week of life-support and repeat surgeries, doctors were able to extubate Leah and reduce her level of sedation to bring her out of the induced coma for a short period of time,” he wrote. “Her first thoughts were with her daughter … and wanted to check she was OK. “This is a lot faster than anyone expected, and for us this feels like a miracle and is everything so many of us have hoped and prayed for over the past week.” Map of Sydney Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher who is a mother to a one-year-old girl, remained in intensive care. A fundraiser page set up to fund her medical procedures and aid her family had garnered more than $488,000 in donations. While she remained in hospital, tensions regarding sharks off Sydney’s coast were running high. A drone video circulating on social media showed what appeared to be a shark close to shore at Bondi beach early on Wednesday morning. The operator said it was a great white and one had also been spotted on Tuesday. …