date:Jun 29, 2012
It was a choice she regularly made -- she's not a vegetarian by any means, but she does love vegetables.
But less than a week after eating this particular dish, Hurtado found herself lying on a hospital bed back home in Jacksonville, Florida. She had been so sick she couldn't walk across the room. Her physiciandecided to connect her to a potassium I.V. drip -- the most painful I.V. she'd felt in her life.
A registered nurse, Hurtado spent two nights in the hospital -- the same one where she wo