Tatyana Koltunyuk, 65, narrowly survived a shark attack on Aug. 7.
Dasha Koltunyuk and her husband, Gregg Kallor, sat down with “Good Morning America” to discuss her mother;s attack.Koltunyuk felt herself “losing energy” once the shark clamped down on her thigh, and counted to nine in order to make it back to the shore, Dasha explained.fashioned a makeshift tourniquetThe family shared one grim image of Koltunyuk in the hospital, which showed the white-haired woman looking pale in bed.
“My mom is in love with nature, with animals. And I do think that she’d want me to tell the public to not hate on sharks, but to do everything we can to swim safely,” Dasha said.In the four weeks since the attack, she has already weathered seven surgeries, and will have at least one more.
“She’s a fighter. And she’s fought for everything in our lives on her own,” Dasha said of her mother.“Our mother is an empathetic, thoughtful, and deeply proud woman who would never ask for anything, always putting others before herself. So we are asking for help on her behalf,” Dasha and her husband wrote on the fundraiser page shortly after the attack.
At the time of her horrific injury, they added, the mother of one was looking forward to her retirement “when she could — for the first time in her life — take a break.” In addition to swimming every day, Koltunyuk, of Astoria, planned to explore the city with a new puppy and travel with her daughter and son-in-law, both of whom are renowned musicians.
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