"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 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.