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Andrew Hudson now has a scar that stretches half-way across his forehead from his left ear to his inner left eyebrow.
A Florida teen has recalled the heart-stopping moment his head was bitten by a 9- to 10-foot-long alligator while swimming in a Geneva river.
Andrew Hudson, 17, was floating down the Econ River in the Little Big Econ State Forest with a friend Monday when he was suddenly struck from behind.
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"It just felt like a big thud, and it started hurting and bleeding everywhere, and I felt the gator on my body," he told Bay News 9 of the bite that left him with a scar across the left side of his forehead.
"I took off swimming as fast as I could to get away from it and blood was everywhere, so I took off my shorts and wrapped them around my head, and basically waited," he said.
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Meanwhile, his friend ran to get help, running what he estimated was a mile to find a park ranger with the pair being so deep in the park.
Hudson was transported to South Seminole Hospital with fire rescue officials calling his injury non-life threatening.
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Monday's gator bite is the second to make national headlines in days with a kayaker in the Everglades also attacked on June 29.
That woman's inflatable kayak was chomped on, deflating her in the gator-infested water. She managed to get to shore and call for help on her cell phone, leading to her safe rescue.
Authorities warn of alligators protecting their young with the season being right for babies.
In the Everglades case, the woman was said to be paddling in a restricted area where a mother alligator was known to hang out with her young.
ngolgowski@nydailynews.com
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