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"I went up close and said, 'Something is odd here, please say something -- answer me,' and she wouldn't," said Linekin's husband, Phillip Mansfield.
April 25 was a night that, for Dr. Michelle Linekin, is a big blur.
“I don’t remember much of anything,” Linekin told Global News. “I filled in the gaps from what people told me afterwards.”
The Penticton, B.C., family doctor had just come home from a work meeting on April 25 and grabbed some chocolate as a late-night snack.
As she sat eating it, the chocolate started dripping out of her mouth.
“I had no idea, I tried to get up. I couldn’t get up,” Linekin said.
Fortunately her husband was there.
“I went up close and said, ‘Something is odd here, please say something — answer me,’ and she wouldn’t,” said Linekin’s husband, Phillip Mansfield. “That’s when I knew something was terribly wrong.”
Mansfield said that’s when he called for help.