It all started with a chili dog: A beef frankfurter laid across a doughy white bun, with beans and a bit more beef strewn across the top. Plus a few onions sprinkled around, along with squiggly lines of mustard and ketchup.
Carole Cape had the tasty dog during lunch with one of her real estate clients. She didn’t give it any further thought. But about four hours later, as she walked through an Athens grocery store picking up a few items, she suddenly felt her chest tighten. Something was wrong.
The next thing Cape knew, she was waking up in a hospital’s intensive care unit a couple of hours later. She didn’t know what had happened, but the doctors told her she was lucky to be alive.
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