rested her head in her hands.
“Are you OK?” one of the women asked.
Another woman touched her forehead.
“She’s burning up! Is there a doctor here?”
One of the mothers, Tosha Luchtefeld, is a nurse practitioner. She rushed over.
Tyler detailed what she’d eaten and mentioned the salty-tasting water.
The woman’s expression changed.
“You have to get to the hospital now,” she told Tyler.
“I think I just need to go home and rest,” Tyler said.
“No, you’re going to the ER,” Luchtefeld insisted. She’d remembered learning that taste can be affected by heart problems.
Tyler’s husband, Don, met her at the emergency room. By the time she’d arrived, she was