Eugene Finney was left with bruises and cuts, including a large gash on his back, after the shark smashed into him while he was swimming in California. When Eugene Finney was subjected to a vicious attack by a shark , he could have been forgiven for fearing he was a goner.
Dad-of-two Eugene suffered cuts and bruises and was left in significant pain after a shark smashed into him while he was swimming off the California coast. But when he went to hospital to get checked out, doctors found something more sinister - a cancerous tumour, which, thankfully, they were able to remove. And he says that catching the disease early saved his life.
Eugene, from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was enjoying a family holiday at Huntington Beach, California, when he encountered the shark during a leisurely swim.
Recalling the ordeal, he told CBS Boston : “Something struck me from behind. I’d never been hit like that before. It was pretty jarring. It kind of gave me instant whiplash.”
He suffered a large gash and went to St Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Massachusetts, with chest and back pains.
Medics told him the pain was the result of blunt force trauma - from the shark attack - but they also discovered a tumour the size of a walnut on his right kidney.
Two weeks ago, Dr Ingolf Tuerk removed the cancerous growth using minimally invasive robotic surgery.
Eugene credited the shark with saving his life.
He said: “If this didn’t happen with the shark, causing me to go in with this chest pain, I would have never known about this cancer . The shark was a real message to me."
Eugene is not expected to require radiation or chemotherapy.
He said: "I really feel like I’ve gotten a second chance at life and I’m not going to blow it."
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