A Texas woman and her husband were rushed to the hospital, where she learned she was poisoned. The incident transpired Tuesday.
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Erin “Dawn” Sims and her husband were enjoying “Taco Tuesday” at a restaurant in Northern Houston for her birthday. After paying for the meal, they returned to their care to head to their next destination she referred to as “the spot.”
“What started off as a great day turned into being one of the scariest moments of my life,” Sims said at the beginning of the four-minute video.
Arriving at the passenger side door, Sims noticed the napkin and assumed her husband placed it there as a joke. She withdrew the napkin from the handle using her acrylic fingernails and tossed it aside, enabling her to open the door with her bare fingertips.
“I’m a slick side germaphobe, so normally I wouldn’t touch anything like that,” Sims said. “But I did have a margarita, and I don’t know…I guess I just thought maybe my husband put it in the door just playing around.”
She demonstrated in the video the napkin placement in the handle.
Sims waited for her husband to finish his phone call. When he hung up, Sims asked him about the napkin, and he told her it wasn’t his. Sims started freaking out and searched for hand sanitizer. Her husband eventually calmed her down and convinced her to return to the restaurant and wash her hands. Two minutes after washing, her fingers began to tingle. She assumed she was “tripping.”
During the car ride, the Houston woman said the tingling feeling disseminated to her entire arm.
“Then [my arm] started to feel numb,” she recalled. “I got lightheaded. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I got hot. It just was a whole bunch of different feelings at one time. I started to panic, [my husband] calmed me down. He told me to just calm down, drink some water, just breathe, just breathe.”
Sim’s husband got her to the hospital, and the nervous woman told the doctors what happened. The medical staff examined Sims and informed her that her vitals weren’t steady. After six hours of fluids and tests, including a CAT scan, the doctors could tell her what had happened to her but not what was in her system.
“The doctors said I had acute poisoning from an unknown substance,” Sims said. “I didn’t have enough of it in my system to determine what it was. But just that little amount had me messed up y’all. So just imagine if I would’ve grabbed it with my full hand, like, I probably could’ve been dead, dawg.”
At the end of the video, an emotional Sims gave an indispensable warning.
“Just for everybody, all the women in Houston…everywhere, just be careful when you’re out,” she warned. “Pay attention to your surroundings. Just be careful, be safe.”
