On Wednesday, Charlie and his mother appeared on " Good Morning America" to talk about the incident and their road to recovery.Ĭharlie Buhl, 12, is speaking out after a crocodile pulled him off a staircase near a dock while on vacation with his family at Club Med in Cancun this summer. The Buhls remained in Cancún for four weeks while Charlie underwent multiple surgeries and antibiotic treatment to prevent a bacterial infection. In the encounter with the crocodile and the subsequent surgery to repair his limb, Charlie lost of about half his blood, his surgeon told his family. The reptile had latched onto his leg from a staircase and dragged him into the water, beginning a frantic rescue effort that required pummeling and poking the eyes of the croc.Ĭharlie's lower leg was severely damaged in the attack and at risk of amputation.
"Jennifer, I believe your son has been attacked by a crocodile," a guest at Club Med, an all-inclusive Mexican resort in Cancún, told her.Ĭharlie Buhl, 12, had been mauled by a 13-foot-crocodile while playing a game of hide-and-seek at a pool deck that leads to a lagoon at the resort. New Jersey hiker, 21, hospitalized after bitten by venomous copperhead snake.Philly native captures alligator in trash can outside Florida home, video goes viral.You'd be hard-pressed to imagine a sentence more terrifying than the one relayed to Jennifer Buhl about her son on June 18, when she and her family were on a trip visiting Mexico from Philadelphia. There are countless exotic shapes and forms that a vacation from hell can take for a family simply looking to enjoy a getaway from the day-to-day grind.
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