A Pittsburgh bear attack victim admitted from her hospital bed that she couldn’t believe she could escape alive from a ferocious mother bear after the bear attacked her in her backyard and tried to scalp her earlier this week. I remembered it.
Lee Ann Galante, 55, left her dog Smokey outside around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, unaware that a mama bear and her three cubs were eating a bird feeder. , said he took immediate action.
“I didn’t want her to eat my baby.” she told news 11.
Then the bear chased the dental hygienist, pushed her face-first into the concrete, and bit her scalp and arm.
“She was on top of me,” Galante recalled emotionally from her hospital bed. She said, “I thought she was going to die…” She never thought she would survive. I couldn’t believe this was happening.
“She was pulling so hard I thought she was going to scalp me,” she continued. “Someone please help me,” she cries. I’m screaming at the top of her lungs. It was scary. ”
She told local media she suffered a laceration behind her ear and had to have stitches.
Galante and his dog were able to escape the angry bear, but the 55-year-old feared the bear would attack again.
Once inside her home, she crawled through the kitchen, grabbed her cell phone, called 911, and was taken to the hospital, where she still resides.
News 11 reports that doctors said she was lucky not to suffer more severe injuries.
“She had quite a few puncture wounds on the back of her neck and on the arm itself, and quite large lacerations and lacerations on her scalp. She also has some fractures on her nose or face,” Allegheny General Hospital said. Trauma surgeon Jennifer Chen told the magazine.
The dental hygienist is expected to make a full recovery, and is determined to go on a trip to Italy next month, saying, “Even if I end up like this, I will definitely make it through.”
Galante said she knew a bear had been seen in the area earlier in the week, but she didn’t know there was a bear in her backyard.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission soon arrived to find the mother bear and her cub hiding in a nearby tree, but police reported that the mother remained “aggressive.”
The mother bear was euthanized and the cubs were sedated and released into an unknown location.
