Eleonora Boi: “I, pregnant, grip with a shark. Horrible who made me video. Danilo …”

“I’m sorry for that shark who caught a meal not of his liking …”. She is proven but after the great fright it bricks, she is still in the hospital but she and her baby are fine and this is the happy ending of the misadventure that protagonists the sports journalist Eleonora Boi, wife of the basketball player Danilo Gallinari, and a shark. In the waters of Puerto Rico – where she moved because her husband plays in the Vaquos de Bayamón – Boi was gripped in the thigh by a fishcase, he was afraid for her (pregnant) and for the other two children who were at that moment in the water, there a stone’s throw away and now “The next bath in the sea can wait …”.

“Physically I am better, I am still hospitalized. I have a 15 centimeter wound, they have beennd to me with a particular bandage so that they can drain the blood because they have not yet closed it to clean it at best and to avoid any risk of infection. In a week they will see her again. We cross my fingers. They are constantly monitoring me because there were no protocols dedicated for those who undergo those who undergo those who undergo those who undergo the sharks. Very unusual thing must be averted the risk of infections.

Basically, he was close to the shore.

“Yes, I was together with Danilo (Gallinari, ed) and to the other two of our children (Anastasia and Rodolfo, editor’s note) On this beach, equipped for families and full of children, who was particularly crowded that day because there was a beach volleyball tournament. When everything happened I was practically almost on the shore with my husband and children: it is impossible to go far with them and with the baby bump! Suddenly I heard a very strong burning on the thigh and, as a good Sardinian, accustomed to staying at sea, I thought it was a jellyfish. I touch myself there and I feel something molliciccio, I start screaming, I go out of the water, my husband takes the children and follows me. I look at my leg and see red and orange, I continued to think it was a jellyfish and instead no … it was my eaten skin that was detaching. A bad image “.

However, he did not hold back those bathers who immediately rescued it.

“Yes, several people immediately ran to me that I screamed, a particular lady immediately came to meet me to assist me. I don’t know who she is, I didn’t ask her for the name and I’m sorry because I would like to thank her as much as she stayed with me all the time and tried to reassure me. It also dabbed the wound with a towel until the rescue and the ambulance have arrived. It was close to me.

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“I still have in front of me the image of a woman who points my cell phone to make a video of that scene. How do you do it? See a pregnant woman covered with blood and the first thing that comes to your mind is to take your cell phone and take it back as if it were the circus? Abominable. Fortunately, however, many other smarter and above all human people have rescued me, but this episode was horrible”.

After those excited moments, the race in the hospital.

“And here I became the attraction of the moment (laughs). People who have been working here for 30 years told me that he had never seen a similar thing before. Because there the attacks of sharks are not on the agenda. Indeed, at the beginning they had not even thought about the bite of a shark; they took pictures of the wound and sent them to a center specialized in marine biology that analyzed the bite and they confirmed that they were a shark. A ‘star’: the pregnant woman drove from the shark.

Her husband did not leave her only one second.

“And he always continues to be with me. He is playing the championship with the Vaquos de Bayamón, Thursday had won race 7 of the playoff semifinals and his coach granted him the next day, that of the bite, of rest. Then I said to him:” We bring the children to the sea so they do not bore at home, there they have fun “. If I think they wanted to bathe in the pool and I have always insisted on the sea … Near it immediately encouraged me, he tried to be strong.

And then his children came to find it too.

“Of course. They frightened at the moment because they saw me cry but fortunately they did not make what happened well. The little one for a matter of age, the big one said to me:” Mom, the shark certainly wanted to eat a fish not you “. It was very sweet. But the terrible memory also terrible because usually they remain in the pool and I go to the sea, instead that day we all went together. Negatives and also the sense of guilt for bringing the bath to the children who ran a horrible risk there.

Has he managed to reassure his family in Italy?

“My mother knew everything in the worst way. At the beginning I tried not to tell my parents, I only spoke to my sister and told her to tell her calmly with it calmly explaining that I was fine anyway. I didn’t think that the news came in such a short time and shortly after a neighbor he wrote to my mom asking her what had happened to me with the squalo. It was desperate but then we felt it and I was very much affected. Friends and schoolmates who have not felt for many years.

On social media he wrote that it was the ugliest day of his life.

“And I confirm it. It was horrible. And horrible it was also to think about what could have happened. I also lived it as a ‘betrayal’ of the sea and now I am afraid of what has been my great love always. The next bathroom at sea can wait. The idea of returning for now terrifies me”.