After doing laundry after dinner last Tuesday, December 19, Emily (Bellovin) O’Neill decided she wanted to eat some more. Back in the kitchen, she took a spoonful of cold rice from a container - and it got stuck in her throat.
“I decided to drink a lot of water, which I think most people would do,” she said. “I don’t know if it made the rice expand or get gooey and sticky. But the water couldnot go down, and the rice was certainly lodged. I could not breathe, and I could not speak. I was spitting up the water because it had nowhere to go.”
Trying to look for her phone, Emily opened the front door. “I stood there, waving my arms, hoping someone would see, but it was dark. I needed someone to call 9-1 -1,” she recounted. She began to panic. “I was
