[USA Today] Saturday morning, as he lay bleeding in a desolate swamp in Florida, James Boyce prepared for the unthinkable. With his wife, Terisa, by his side, he told her he loved her and that he wouldn't change a thing about their 15-year marriage. This was it. His time was up. But Terisa wasn't about to let her husband become gator bait.
She was determined to make sure her husband lived to tell the tale of how an alligator nearly took his leg and his life.
Boyce, 46, of Palm Beach County, survived after a 10-foot-long alligator chomped down on the back of his leg just above the knee. Boyce was able to free himself, stave off serious blood loss and get help from fellow hunters and emergency responders to wind up with little more than scores of stitches as a memento of the day he nearly died.
