At the first Deathclaw encounter -

I got the Deathclaw down to 50% - so I figured I'd quicksave. I sprinted away so the Deathclaw was about 100 yards away to quicksave. I ended up dying 15 seconds later.

So what happens next?

As soon as the game loads - it's a death animation of me getting killed. Loads again, same thing.

Not sure what happened to make it so when I quicksaved when the enemy was so far away, yet when the game loads I'm instantly dead?

Crappy thing is I have no other saves even close to this point in the game.

Pretty bummed out, waste of time on my part.