Overview

• In her first sit‑down interview aired Sept. 17, Lulu Gribbin said she is grateful to be alive and focused on progress with the support of family and friends.
• She has taken up golf with specialized attachments, returned to slalom waterskiing, relearned to run, and now aims to compete in track at the Paralympics.
• Gribbin is launching the Lulu Strong Foundation to support amputees and broaden access to advanced care, including investigational virtual‑reality therapy for phantom limb pain.
• Alabama enacted Lulu’s Law in May to send cellphone alerts after nearby unprovoked shark attacks, a system Gribbin advocated after learning another attack occurred about 90 minutes before hers along the same coast.
• Following the June 7, 2024 incident near Seacrest Beach, she lost her left hand and later had her right leg amputated, spent more than two months hospitalized, and underwent targeted muscle reinnervation to aid prosthetic control and pain management.