‘Incredibly Lucky To Be Alive' – Orinda Woman Battling Cancer Survives Bear Attack Inside Tahoe Cabin

By Katie Nielsen, CBS San Francisco:

ORINDA (KPIX 5) – An East Bay woman battling stage 4 cancer said she feels grateful to be alive after being mauled by a bear at her family’s Lake Tahoe cabin over the weekend.

“A bear mauling is not a little thing. It’s huge,” Laurel-Rose Von Hoffmann-Curzi told KPIX 5 as she sat in the living room of her Orinda home Wednesday.

Von Hoffman-Curzi has dozens of stitches in her face, deep lacerations on her chest and arms and puncture wounds all over her torso. She was mauled by a black bear early Saturday morning her family’s Tahoe Vista cabin – a cabin they’ve owned since 2004.

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