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VIDEO: Texas Woman Rushed To The Emergency Room After Poison-Laced Napkin Was Placed In Her Car Door Handle

<p>A woman in Texas is shaken up after she was rushed to the emergency room for a possible poisoning attempt&period; Erin &&num;8216&semi;Dawn&&num;8217&semi; Sims and her husband visited a restaurant in northern Houston on Tuesday to celebrate her birthday&period; They enjoyed a meal before returning to the car to drive to their next destination&period; Unfortunately&comma; the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tyrese-gibson-begs-to-be-released-from-the-poison-of-his-masterful-manipulator-ex-girlfriend-zelie-timothy&sol;">plans went left<&sol;a> after Erin discovered a napkin stuffed into her door handle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;What started off as a great day turned into being one of the scariest moments of my life&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Erin said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In a four-minute-long video&comma; Erin explained how she ended up with <em>acute poisoning<&sol;em>&period; During a part of the recording&comma; the 37-year-old showed an example of how the napkin was stuffed&period; The napkin was sitting in the slit created to pull the handle out and open the door&period; Erin said she plucked the napkin out of the slit using her lengthy acrylic fingernails&period; However&comma; she pulled the door handle open using her bare fingertips&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m a slick side germaphobe so normally I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t touch anything like that&period; But I did have a margarita and I don&&num;8217&semi;t know&&num;8230&semi;I guess I just thought maybe my husband put it in the door just playing around&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Erin said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Erin waited until her husband finished a phone call before asking about the napkin&period; Immediately after her husband confirmed the napkin wasn&&num;8217&semi;t his&comma; Erin searched for and used the hand sanitizer&period; Erin&&num;8217&semi;s husband attempted to calm her and suggested she go back into the restaurant to wash her hands&period; Erin said her fingertips started tingling about two minutes after washing her hands&period; So&comma; to relax&comma; she told herself she was tripping and that the feeling was nothing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CZ0PYmduwN0&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CZ0PYmduwN0&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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started to feel numb&period; I got light-headed&comma; I felt like I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t breathe&period; I got hot&period; It just was a whole bunch of different feelings at one time&period; I started to panic&comma; &lbrack;my husband&rsqb; calmed me down&period; He told me to just calm down&comma; drink some water&comma; just breathe&comma; just breathe&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Erin complied and took deep breaths as her husband dialed 911&period; The couple needed help finding the nearest emergency room as they weren&&num;8217&semi;t in a familiar area&period; At the hospital&comma; Erin explained what had happened&period; After a brief examination&comma; the medical staff warned Erin that her vitals were not stable&period; She was placed on fluids and spent the next six and a half hours undergoing multiple tests&comma; including a CAT scan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The doctors said I had acute poisoning from an unknown substance&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Erin revealed&period; &&num;8220&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have enough of it in my system to determine what it was&period; But just that little amount had me messed up y&&num;8217&semi;all&period; So just imagine if I would&&num;8217&semi;ve grabbed it with my full hand&comma; like&comma; I probably could&&num;8217&semi;ve been dead dawg&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>Erin Shares A Warning&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Pay Attention To Your Surroundings&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p>With less than a minute left in the video&comma; Erin was on the verge of tears as she warned viewers to &&num;8220&semi;be careful&period;&&num;8221&semi; The doctors told Erin the poisoning could&&num;8217&semi;ve been<em> &&num;8220&semi;a possible kidnapping attempt&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Just for everybody&comma; all the women in Houston&&num;8230&semi;everywhere just be careful when you&&num;8217&semi;re out&period; Pay attention to your surroundings&period; Just be careful&comma; be safe&period;&&num;8221&semi; She later thanked God for her husband&&num;8217&semi;s presence&period; Erin added&comma; &&num;8220&semi;it got some crazy a&ast;&ast; people in the world y&&num;8217&semi;all like I never thought this would happen to me or on my side of town&comma; so it could happen anywhere y&&num;8217&semi;all&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Erin told <em>The Shade Room <&sol;em>the hospital released her but told her to return if she felt worse&period; She spent Wednesday resting but told <em>TSR <&sol;em>she was on her way to file a police report on Thursday morning&period; Erin claimed she attempted to contact the restaurant owner to obtain parking lot footage but couldn&&num;8217&semi;t reach them&period; Still&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s hoping she or the police can access the video soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>This story is developing&period; Watch Erin&&num;8217&semi;s full testimony below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;reel&sol;ChZ3g65FVEQ&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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