Life-saving shark attack: Man is grateful for 'message from Mother Nature'

A curious story was reported by the New York Post. In 2015, an American man, Eugene Finney was attacked by a shark on the coast of Huntington Beach in California. But this attack saves his life.

Shark rams man in the back

Eugene Finney never noticed the shark approaching, but only became aware of the attack when he felt a sharp pain in his back. The shark rammed him in the back and left a deep cut. Fortunately for the then 39-year-old, the shark swam away after the attack.

But what Finney didn't know at the time was that the dangerous animal actually saved his life by hitting him in the back! A short time later, he suddenly started having breathing problems and chest pains, and not from the wound on his back.

Diagnosis revealed tumour

In the emergency room, the attending doctors realised how lucky Eugene Finney was to have been attacked by the shark. A diagnosis revealed that the man had a cancerous tumour in his right kidney.

The early-stage cancer was removed surgically and Finney lost only about twenty per cent of his kidney in the process. The American told the Washington Post that he perceived the shark attack as a sign from mother nature:

I received a message from Mother Nature. That triggered a series of events that brought me to the hospital to find out about it.

This article was translated from Gentside DE.

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