Sydney shark attack victim utters first three words as she wakes up from coma after great white bite

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A mother who was left battling for her life following a shark attack has emerged from her coma, with her family revealing the touching first words she spoke.Leah Stewart, 35, suffered severe injuries when a great white shark attacked her during a swim at Coogee Beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs on June 13.Medical teams rushed her to St Vincent's Hospital in a critical condition, where surgeons performed an arm amputation alongside multiple other procedures while she remained in intensive care.Her brother Joshua provided an update from the hospital on Wednesday.After a week of life-support and repeat surgeries, doctors were able to extubate Leah and reduce her level of sedation to bring her out of the induced coma for a short period of time," he said."This allowed Leah to share her first words, 'I love you', with her mum and partner Fernando who have been by her side in ICU since the incident."The primary school teacher's immediate concern upon waking was for her daughter August,...

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