{"id":99,"date":"2010-03-30T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/03\/good-samaritan-saves-a-choking-woman.html"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:35:09","slug":"good-samaritan-saves-a-choking-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/03\/good-samaritan-saves-a-choking-woman.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan Saves a Choking Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One french fry brought two women together.<\/p>\n<p>While driving on the highway in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kypost.com\/content\/wcposhared\/story\/Woman-Meets-Good-Samaritan-Who-Saved-Her-Life\/MCsLiPMP0kuLf-bv96RaYg.cspx\">Liberty Township, Ohio, Amanda Mountel<\/a> found herself in a desperate situation&#8211;she began choking on a french fry she was eating.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately, Mountel &#8220;slammed on the brakes, threw it into park, and flagged down help,&#8221; by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsv.nevada.edu\/~susanb\/blog\/archives\/000265.html\">international sign for choking<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kypost.com\/content\/wcposhared\/story\/Woman-Meets-Good-Samaritan-Who-Saved-Her-Life\/MCsLiPMP0kuLf-bv96RaYg.cspx\">KYPost.com<\/a>).&nbsp; A few cars drove by without stopping to help, but Amber Whitehouse, who learned First Aid about 12 years ago, came to Mountel&#8217;s rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could see immediately that she was in real danger&#8230;I just had to help her,&#8221; Whitehouse said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kypost.com\/content\/wcposhared\/story\/Woman-Meets-Good-Samaritan-Who-Saved-Her-Life\/MCsLiPMP0kuLf-bv96RaYg.cspx\">KYPost.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Still in shock, Mountel didn&#8217;t catch Whitehouse&#8217;s name, but they eventually found each other and reconnected through emails and Facebook.&nbsp; Both women, mothers of young toddlers,&nbsp;even discovered their husbands went to the same high school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now&nbsp;good&nbsp;friends, Mountel and Whitehouse will always be bound by a life-changing experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One french fry brought two women together. 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