“I just got bit by a gator,” Gabriel Klimis, 13, said calmly on the Tuesday night emergency call.
In the heat of the moment, he kept his cool.
Klimis was cooling off in shallow water at Howell Creek Trestle in Winter Springs when the creature grabbed him, he“I was going to get up, and the gator just started pulling me back under and just jumped up and grabbed me,” he recalled.Gabriel Klimis, 13, pictured just a few hours after he was attacked by an alligator in shallow water.Klimis’ friends helped him call 911, and he was rushed to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children with a wound that stretched from above his hip down his thigh.
“[They said] ‘We’re going straight to Arnold Palmer with your son.’ I said, ‘oh, Arnold Palmer. Is it that bad?’ She said, ‘do you want to see it?’ I took one glance and said, ‘to Arnold Palmer right away. Let’s go.’”Klimis’ 10-year-old brother, Jonah, witnessed the surprise attack. Just a few hours later, however, Klimis was pictured sitting upright and looking happy at the hospital.He got several stitches and now has a bandage covering the wound to prevent infection.
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