Strength, hope and old-fashioned chutzpah helped her survive the challenge of a lifetime
A hike in Californias Sequoia National Park turned deadly when Shannon Parker split from her group to grab her sunglasses from the car. Before she could get them, she found herself face-to-face with the lion and came to a daunting realization.
“I knew exactly what it was when I made eye contact with it, she said in an ABC interview. It was either the mountain lion or me. One of us was going to die.”
The cat attacked, catching Parkers head in its jaws. Parker fought the cat for six minutes before she was able to free her face and scream to alert her friends. They chased it off with rocks and a pocketknife, but not before Parker sustained severe injury to her right eye, along with deep gouges in her thigh.
After a surgery failed to repair her eye, doctors fitted her with a
prosthetic. While Parker suffered no life-threatening injuries, the trauma to her face was devastating; Parker said the most challenging aspect of the attack was dealing with the disfiguring injuries she suffered.
Her plastic surgeon played a huge role in helping her...
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