MIAMI -- The wife of a man who lost his leg after a shark attack made an emotional appearance before the media today.

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Ave Maria Thompson (pictured, right) first described her husband, Krishna, as a strong, brave man who showed incredible presence of mind when he fought off a bull shark, made it to shore and scrawled his room number into the sand before passing out.

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Wife Of Shark Attack Victim Speaks Out

Ave Maria then sobbed, telling reporters that lifeguards sat in their chairs as her husband struggled in the surf with the shark. She says that her husband yelled for help, but none came.

"When you scream for help and you're a lifeguard, you're supposed to get in there. You're supposed to try to help," she said. "One of the first things he said to me when they removed the ventilator was that he was screaming and they wouldn't come. He had to swim to them. I'm so hurt."

When the hotel called her down to the pool where her injured husband lay with a makeshift tourniquet around his leg, they didn't tell her why. She said that she thought there might be some kind of anniversary surprise waiting for her.

Nothing could have been further from the truth. When she arrived at the pool, she saw her husband lying on the ground. His hands were battered and cut from fighting the shark and his leg was mangled.

Krishna (pictured, right) was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami where doctors were forced to amputate his leg above the knee.

Ave Maria says that her husband gave her a note this morning and seems to be doing better. She asked if there was anything she could bring him -- "A leg," he wrote back.

Doctors say that Krishna is in critical but stable condition. They say if it hadn't been for the help of a surgeon who just happened to be jogging on the beach when Krishna collapsed on shore, he probably would not have survived. That doctor worked quickly to prevent massive blood loss, grabbing a belt from an onlooker and fashioning a tourniquet.

The Thompsons were spending their vacation in the Bahamas, celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary at the time of the attack.

Resort Has A Different Story

The resort has denied the Thompsons account of what happened. In a statement to Channel 10 News, the Our Lucaya resort said that their lifeguards did rescue Thompson by using a human lifeline technique to bring him to the beach when he was still 15 feet from the shore. They also said that it was not a doctor who saved Thompson by using a belt as a a tourniquet, but rather the lifeguards.

So far, there is no word on whether the Thompsons will sue.