Enough with the stalking of these monsters!
#$%^&>
[h=1]'She could feel her foot in its mouth': Minn. girl bitten 25 times in lake, possibly by muskie[/h]
***Editor's Note: A photo at the end of this story shows the severity of the injuries and may be disturbing to some readers.***
DULUTH, Minn.—Ryan Kesselhon couldn't figure out what was happening to his 11-year-old daughter, Maren. One minute, Maren had been peacefully dangling from her family's paddleboard in Island Lake on Wednesday afternoon. The next second she
was screaming wildly.
"I couldn't figure out what she was screaming about," Ryan Kesselhon said. "Then she lifted her foot out of the water, and I could see it was filleted open in many places."
Closer examination revealed she had been cut in 25 places, mostly on her upper ankle and on top of her foot, Kesselhon said.
"There were nine deep lacerations that required stitches," Kesselhon said.
Nobody knows for sure what attacked Maren while she was hanging on the paddleboard near the Minnesota Power boat launch on the east side of Island Lake. But Maren has her hunches.
"My daughter, right away, when I pulled her out of the water, she thought it was a fish," Kesselhon said. "She could feel her foot in its mouth. She kicked it with her other foot. It released, but it left a torn-up foot."
Maren had to undergo surgery at Essentia Health to repair her tendon and to stitch up her wounds, Kesselhon said in a telephone interview Thursday. Doctors there told him they thought it was likely that a fish had caused the lacerations.
But she seems to be taking the traumatic event in stride, her dad said.
"She'll be back in the water," he said. "She's not too shaken. She knows this was a freak incident and that she'll never experience this again."
The Kesselhon family had been trying to beat the heat on Wednesday at Island Lake. Ryan Kesselhon, in an old 16-foot boat with a 5-horsepower outboard, was letting his three daughters take turns riding atop a stand-up paddleboard towed behind the boat. When they'd get hot, they'd just jump in the water to cool off. That's what Maren was doing, wearing a life preserver, holding onto the paddleboard, waiting for her dad to swing around in the boat and pick her up, according to Ryan Kesselhon.
That's when the screaming started.
Ryan and Lora Kesselhon's other two daughters, ages 9 and 13, were in the boat with him. The attack occurred about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Ryan Kesselhon said the family didn't get home from the emergency room until about midnight Thursday.
Physicians who treated Maren weren't sure what caused the lacerations, Kesselhon said.
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[h=1]'She could feel her foot in its mouth': Minn. girl bitten 25 times in lake, possibly by muskie[/h]
***Editor's Note: A photo at the end of this story shows the severity of the injuries and may be disturbing to some readers.***
DULUTH, Minn.—Ryan Kesselhon couldn't figure out what was happening to his 11-year-old daughter, Maren. One minute, Maren had been peacefully dangling from her family's paddleboard in Island Lake on Wednesday afternoon. The next second she
was screaming wildly.
"I couldn't figure out what she was screaming about," Ryan Kesselhon said. "Then she lifted her foot out of the water, and I could see it was filleted open in many places."
Closer examination revealed she had been cut in 25 places, mostly on her upper ankle and on top of her foot, Kesselhon said.
"There were nine deep lacerations that required stitches," Kesselhon said.
Nobody knows for sure what attacked Maren while she was hanging on the paddleboard near the Minnesota Power boat launch on the east side of Island Lake. But Maren has her hunches.
"My daughter, right away, when I pulled her out of the water, she thought it was a fish," Kesselhon said. "She could feel her foot in its mouth. She kicked it with her other foot. It released, but it left a torn-up foot."
Maren had to undergo surgery at Essentia Health to repair her tendon and to stitch up her wounds, Kesselhon said in a telephone interview Thursday. Doctors there told him they thought it was likely that a fish had caused the lacerations.
But she seems to be taking the traumatic event in stride, her dad said.
"She'll be back in the water," he said. "She's not too shaken. She knows this was a freak incident and that she'll never experience this again."
The Kesselhon family had been trying to beat the heat on Wednesday at Island Lake. Ryan Kesselhon, in an old 16-foot boat with a 5-horsepower outboard, was letting his three daughters take turns riding atop a stand-up paddleboard towed behind the boat. When they'd get hot, they'd just jump in the water to cool off. That's what Maren was doing, wearing a life preserver, holding onto the paddleboard, waiting for her dad to swing around in the boat and pick her up, according to Ryan Kesselhon.
That's when the screaming started.
Ryan and Lora Kesselhon's other two daughters, ages 9 and 13, were in the boat with him. The attack occurred about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Ryan Kesselhon said the family didn't get home from the emergency room until about midnight Thursday.
Physicians who treated Maren weren't sure what caused the lacerations, Kesselhon said.
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