{"id":186433,"date":"2023-08-27T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=186433"},"modified":"2023-08-27T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:11:14","slug":"woman-impaled-by-deadly-stingray-on-the-beach-missing-her-lung-by-centimetres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/woman-impaled-by-deadly-stingray-on-the-beach-missing-her-lung-by-centimetres\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman impaled by deadly stingray on the beach missing her lung by centimetres"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman whose close encounter with a deadly stingray saw her impaled is lucky to be alive after the animal missed her lung.<\/p>\n

Kristie O'Brien had been wading in knee deep water in Tampa, Florida, United States, when she was stabbed in the back by a Southern stingray.<\/p>\n

Her relaxing trip to the beach took a turn when the venomous animal impaled her, with its stinger heading four inches deep inside Kristie, narrowly missing her lung by centimetres.<\/p>\n

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Ms O'Brien was "certain she was going to die", with the animal group responsible for the death of infamous Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, back in 2006.<\/p>\n

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Kristie said: "I was trying to stay as calm as I could. But I was certain that I was going to die because, I mean, like everyone has like this picture of Steve Irwin when he literally was punctured in his chest.<\/p>\n

"As soon as I hit the water, I felt like I had been stung by something."<\/p>\n

Her husband found her with the stingray still lodged inside of her, while Kristie knew to leave the beast well alone until paramedics could cut off the tail.<\/p>\n

The stingray spine was later cut off at a hospital where Kristie rested for a few days and was treated for a possible poisoning.<\/p>\n

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