HARRISBURG (TNS) — A Pittsburgh woman was injured in a shark attack on Myrtle Beach and is now recovering, according to WPDE.

The woman named Karren Sites reportedly was swimming “waste-deep” in the water with her 8-year-old grandson, and that’s when a shark bit her arm on Monday.

Her grandson was only 10 feet away from her when the incident occurred.

“I just felt something, I guess, bite me and there was a shark on my arm. I was only in waist-deep water. I kept pushing at it to get it off my arm and it did,” Sites told WPDE.

Sites had to get hundreds of stitches due to the incident. Though, she told WPDE she will continue to visit the beach.

Daniel Abel, a Marine Science professor at Coastal Carolina University’s Marine Science stated, “It’s very clearly a shark bite, when you look at the arc of the tooth marks and the damage that was done, my sympathies to the victim that’s a horrendous thing to go through.”