Comments on: Sharkbite Photos *edited- new photos* http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/ raising kids and eyebrows since 1992 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: jonny http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-1880 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:13:04 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-1880 Another thing, I may use this story the next time I have a speaking engagement. Doing what I can to try and get Christians to effectively love more. When faced with the fact that someone’s been bitten, had a small chunk taken out of them when one person or another’s had a “shark” moment, how do we deal with the victim once we’ve come across one?? I hope to use the small rubber shark as a possible solution = ) Peace! jonny

]]> By: jonny http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-1836 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:42:43 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-1836 Well, I’m not sure how much to throw out here. 1st off, I do believe it. Did believe even before seeing the photos. Read an article, in Time magazine I believe, some time ago about sharks & attacks. It mainly concentrated on a 7 or 8 yr old boy & his horrific attack. I basically stopped swimming in the ocean after seeing Jaws. Not a popular thing to do as a teen in California. Anyway, this article got me into searching the web to find out more about sharks & their attacking methodes, habits. Your daughter is very fortunate. I came across Russ’ web page & this info last nite. I got up around three in the morning, couldn’t get back to sleep so grabbed my new phone & started looking up Russ on You Tube. I’m a rock vocalist & to make a long story short Russ played a big part in influencing that based on some stuff I heard him do in the 70s & 80s as a kid. I was extremely blessed by some clips of his I experienced, then after a while was curious what Tori was looking like these days so googled Russ & came across all this. I haven’t seen a pic me Tori since the 80s. Anyway, got up around three in the morning again tonight & this time started catching up on some Bible reading & this was in the 2nd chapter I read: “For he orders his angels to protect you wherever you go. They will steady you with their hands to keep you from stumbling against the rocks on the trail. You can safely meet a lion or step on poisonous snakes, yes, even trample them beneath your feet!” I don’t subscribe to any bloggs, but after coming across that tonite, I thought I should register & share all this, FWIW. By the way, I think Russ & Tori are looking great & glad Russ got rid me the mustache. It never suited him, in my opinion = ) Oh, & this is being done text message style with my phone in honor of the shark bite survivor, so all paragraphs are run together as a result. Peace! jonny

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:12:41 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-1323 How Weird We have just found out about this! We arrived the same day y’all did & rode the elevator up with Russ. I reconized Russ spoke to him with my Husband & son. We had told Friends & Family who all watch the Gaithers that we had rode the elevator up with Russ Taff. And knew we didn’t see y’all any the rest of the week & so now we see why! Wow a Shark Bite at Cherry Grove my mom had bought the Homecoming Magazine with the article in it & read it to me tonight so now we know why! It was so strange to hear about a shark bite after having been there with our family & with our 8 yr old son wading in the water all week! You just really never know. We all love to Fish off the pier & we did catch several good size Sand Shark that week! We also watched several from our balcony & several stingrays! We did not hear about this the whole week we were there they kept it very quite & now 6 months later we hear this! We are glad to hear that Madi is doing Well! This confirms my reason for not getting into the water far myself I like to sit at the edge of the water! We have caught too many Sand Shark close to the Shore for me! That was our 1st trip to Cherry Grove & we loved the place & the pier being there! We loved the fact that y’all had the humor about the rubber shark that was funny! We were glad to hear she was going to be Ok! I meant to tell Russ that night in the elevator that I love his song Friends are Friends Forever! When I was a teen like Madi our youth group at church sang that song together. Stephanie from Tennessee!

]]> By: LindaB http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:38:55 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-149 Well, the statistics may say there is only a very rare possibility that Madi will ever get bit again, but as a mother, I subscribe to the Peter Pan theory (remember the crocodile who had a bite of Captain Hook and spent the remainder of his life seeking a second helping?). I’d never let that girl of mine anywhere near the ocean again…….and I’d be vigilant when visiting Sea World too! But I know Madi is going to jump back in ’cause she’s braver than I am.

And I agree teegees, you gotta admire that kind of sick rubber shark humor in the face of near disaster!!! Those Taff’s rock!

Hope Madi is recovering nicely! What a vacation!

]]> By: teegees http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:17:07 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-148 OMG as they say here in blogland! For real, I take a week off from reading and THIS happens. WOW! Glad to hear Madi is okay; what a very blessed girl she is.

BTW, no one will be able to compete with her “What I did over summer vacation” essay this fall…

Tori, I LOVE the sick rubber shark humor! You make me so proud.

]]> By: themema http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:20:23 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-147 This was the response from my world class 54 year old surfer boy.

Hmm..I have had a few close encounters including punching a board under a big set in Hawaii and banging into a tiger shark swimming in the wave..a tad unnerving! I am glad she is okay and I hope they keep the humor up and get her back in the water as the statistical possibility of her being bitten again is RARE!!! R

]]> By: BrownEyedGirl http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:56:22 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-146 :o) I just now got a look at the last two pics ( I guess the paramedic in me just stuck to the gory ones at first LOL)

I love it. I would have been the same way- Putting on makeup on the way to the hospital :o)

Heal quickly, Madi!

]]> By: gracelynn http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:33:31 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-144 I love the last one; strike a pose Madi! You are so right themema; she definitely shows us how to be in charge. The first one reminds me of my mom – she’d be doing the same thing headed for the ER. Trust me – she cannot go out without putting on that lipstick! LOL

]]> By: themema http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:13:06 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-143 Madi shows us an important lesson here. With the last two pictures, she shows us how to be in charge, when you can’t control all that is going on in your life. She focused on what she could control. Important lesson for us all.

]]> By: auburn60 http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:55:07 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-142 Well…beauty is God-given,right? So looking at hunky guys is just appreciating some of God’s creation,right?
(I’m struggling here.)

]]> By: belinda http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:56:42 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-140 Madi Rocks! I love the last two picture; the one of her putting her makeup on, is that her cell phone in her hand? Then the one sitting there on the bed posing for another picture and looking like nothing every happened. She is one brave young lady. Praying for a speedy recovery for her!

]]> By: LindaB http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:29:04 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-139 Gee, Alyson, that’s what I was thinking—–but I didn’t want to be perchieved as unspiritual! Were the “beach patrol” anything like the hunks on Bay Watch—–especially the ones that “carried” her to the car?

I personally liked the “blanket over the head while the stitching was going on” picture!!! I’m gonna try that at my next yearly pa……., oh, you know!

]]> By: auburn60 http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:20:00 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-138 So–any cute guys in the ER to benefit from all this primping and posing? Any hunks on the Beach Patrol? Seems a shame to waste it. :)

]]> By: BrownEyedGirl http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:46 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-137 Oh my Gosh! I’m so glad she’s Okay! How scary. I can’t imagine what was going through your head as you were headed to the beach.

Prayers are headed your way for Madi’s speedy recovery

Wendy

]]> By: rockin robyn http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:22:44 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-135 This Taff family is surely an interesting and blessed family!! God Bless you all and what a trooper Miss Madi is…. My Lord – here I am – limping around in a soft cast because I took a fall and nearly broke my foot – and being quite the baby about the discomfort and pain- I might add… and Madi what a trooper you are…. I would still be in the hospital from the shock “days after” – if I would have gotten bit by a shark!! What a brave, brave young lady… God gave her the strength so Mom and Dad didn’t lose it….. May God touch and bring healing to your little girl’s injury as quickly as possible… and a praise to Him for not allowing anything worse to have happened to Madi… God surely shed his blessing on the Taff family this time!! Thanks be to Him!!

]]> By: Barbara M. Lloyd http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:37:40 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-133 My stomach turned over looking at those pictures. How big do you think that shark’s mouth was, for goodness sake? It reached from her toes all the way up onto her leg…..had it gone in from another position…..I feel sick! Bless her heart, she is such a trouper….how cute, texting in her hospital bed. Talk about making vacation memories!

]]> By: gracelynn http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:19:27 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-132 Oh my gosh Tori! I just read your account of this mishap and then came on to this. It literally scared me to death and made me cringe just reading and thinking about it. Go Madi is all I can say and you are an AWESOME mom to stay in there and endure that without throwing up or passing out. PHEW! I know what it is like to have a wound cleaned – not by a shark, but by a dog. And it isn’t fun to watch or endure. My heart goes out to Madi. And no, I don’t think you all are insane by getting all the shark items LOL. Sounds exactly like something my uncle would do for me.

I’ll be praying hard for Madi’s recovery. Hang in there honey! You are one brave young lady.

]]> By: emilythemom http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:51:30 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-131 Oh my gosh! I take one day off from reading blogs and look what happens!
Wow. Way to go on not passing out, and mucho kudos to Madi for being so on top of it – i am so impressed. My favorite part of the story is where Madi points out that Char watched too much Animal Planet. That was equal parts awesome (for char being such a genius) and hilarious!

You Taffs are downright amazing. So glad to know everything is ok!

]]> By: LindaB http://www.babybloomr.com/2008/06/02/sharkbite-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:01:48 +0000 http://babybloomr.com/?p=79#comment-130 I think I see that she had toe nail polish on! That’s another thing to be happy for! I hate it when I get caught out with my toenails not done! You rock, Madi!!!

I would have passed out, for real, Momma Taff! I’ve done it before…..in every hospital in Genesee County. You rock too! And Russ for staying calm and not jumping in the water and beating that shark to death! And Char for her expertise on sea life! What a vacation! What a family!!!

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