A South Florida woman is expected to make a full recovery after suffering from a shark bite in the Intracoastal Waterway off Fort Lauderdale on Sunday.

Jessica Vaughn, 22, was swimming from a boat to an inner tube when she felt like she was hit on her right leg Sunday afternoon. She was also struck in the face by the shark's fin, reports the Associated Press.

She frantically began screaming for help and her friends pulled her back into the boat.

"I jump in, start swimming out to the tube, and I get hit by something, and then I realize that my leg is cut open," Vaughn said Monday, according to Fox News. "It was scary ... It felt like a punch, and I didn't notice the back of it until [my friends] pulled me up on the boat, and I could see teeth marks on the back," she said.

After her friends got her safely back in the boat, they took her to a nearby dock where they were met by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel. She was then transported to a nearby hospital.

She underwent a two-hour surgery at Broward Health Medical Center on Sunday, officials said. Doctors say Vaughn sustained puncture wounds, in addition to an open wound with muscle damage. Fortunately, no blood vessels or nerves were damaged. However, she is expected to be in splint for several weeks.

"It was probably the largest shark bite that I have seen," plastic surgeon Dr. Zoran Potparic of Broward Health Medical Center told WSVN.

Officials believe that a bull shark bit Vaughn, which are known to travel inland waterways like the Intracoastal.

"I feel so very lucky," Vaughn said. "It's true. I think about it. I can't believe it happened, especially me."