The surfing community in Brevard County is coming together to help a 14-year-old girl who was in a freak surfing accident and could lose sight in one of her eyes.

Strom Portman was out in the ocean about two weeks ago at Pelican Beach Park, in Satellite Beach.

The tip of her surfboard hit her in the face. Blood was coming from the teenager's eye while she was in the water.

"My eye was not where it should have been," she recalled. "So, I had to keep my hand on it so, like, it didn't come out."

Portman said she was going to paddle back out until she saw the blood. Her stepfather was there and rushed the girl to the hospital.

"It looked like a hole," Daryl Dixon, the girl's stepfather, recalled. "It was bad."

Portman underwent emergency surgery at Holmes Regional Medical Center. She then headed to Miami for more surgery.

"The doctor who did the emergency surgery said out of a 1 to 10, it was a 10," Dixon said. "The worst he had ever seen."

Portman trains in the water for hours each day. Surfing is her passion, and that's obvious based on her resume. She has won major awards, including one contest where she took the title for 14-and-under for the entire East Coast.

Portman's surfing coach, John Holeman, added: "It takes years and years and years to reach the level of surfing that she reached in only two years. It's absolutely amazing. This girl has a lot of drive and talent to be a professional surfer."

Portman said she can see light and some movement in her injured eye. Doctors aren't sure if the teenager will regain her sight.

The community has organized a surfing contest to raise money and show support for Portman.

"Everyone has been really so supportive," Dixon said. "We appreciate it, and she'll be back in the water soon."

Portman believes that, too, even though this wasn't the first surfing-related scare for the girl, either. Portman suffered a shark bite last year. She was out of the water for almost a month because of the shark bite.

 "I see it as God's plan, and I just have to hope for the best," she said.

The Eye of the Storm Surf Contest is scheduled to take place Feb. 21, at Paradise Beach Park.

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