"I think this situation just really goes to show that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Because I do have my prosthetic now. I’d say I’m thriving," Annabelle Carlson said.

Annabelle Carlson isn’t going to let a brutal shark attack keep her from living her fullest life. The 15-year-old from Colorado lost a leg when she was attacked by two reef sharks during a family diving trip to Belize in August and has spent four months in the hospital.

Annabelle Carlson has had seven surgeries to repair her hands and treat her leg after she was attacked by a shark in Belize in August.

A Colorado teenager who lost her leg in a shark attack in Belize over the summer described a feeling of playing “tug of war” with the dangerous sea creatures as they ripped off her limb and wounded her hands.