THIS man was left with cuts and bruises after a horrifying ocean encounter, but it’s what doctors found in hospital that could have killed him.
Eugene Finney, his two kids and his girlfriend were
having a swim at a California beach when the shark struck.
“Something struck me from behind. I’d never been hit like that before. It was pretty jarring. It kind of gave me an instant whiplash,” he told CBS Boston.
Finney managed to struggle back to shore.
Beach closed ... Huffington beach was close minutes after Finney reported the attack. Picture: CBS BostonSource:Supplied
“That’s when my daughter said to me, Daddy, how come your back is all bloody?”
Despite a long gash on his back, Eugene decided it wasn’t worth a hospital trip.
“That night I started having pretty serious chest and back pains,” he said, and that's when he decided to go.
Doctors told him the pain was caused by interior bruising of the thoracic cavity due to blunt force trauma.
But what he heard next changed his life forever.
Shocking find ... the shark attack lead to a cancer discovery. Picture: CBS BostonSource:Supplied
“They had discovered a growth, or a tumour, on my right kidney about the size of a walnut.”
It was cancer.
Doctors operated on it two weeks ago and the surgery was a success.
“If this didn’t happen with the shark, causing me to go in [to hospital] with this chest pain, I would have never known about this cancer,” Finney said.
“I feel fortunate. I really feel like I’ve gotten a second chance at life and I’m not going to blow it.”
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