BOCA GRANDE, FLA. (WSVN) — A 10-year-old girl describes the harrowing moments that changed her life while she was snorkeling with her family.

Leah Lendel was snorkeling in the shallow waters off the coast of Boca Grande with her family in June when a shark took a bite out of her wrist.

“I think I saw its tail and then it just let go, and then I swim out, and then I see my hand bleeding and I knew it was a shark,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘What am I gonna do now? Am I ever gonna see my hand again?'”

Despite the scary experience, she managed to walk out of the water on her own, where her mom, Nadia Lendel, found her.

“She was just quiet. She wasn’t screaming, she wasn’t making any kind of commotion. She was just standing there and I looked over to and her hand looked like it was hangin

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