Woman gets to meet her life-saver after almost choking to death

CONWAY, Ark. – What started as just a night out eating with a family, turned into a near death experience when one woman started choking on her food.

Luckily though, a savior was nearby.

Weeks after the incident, the woman came face to face with the person she said saved her life.

As families sit at tables and pars to enjoy dinner, this turned out to be anything but a normal night for Gina Ortale.

"I took a bit of I don't even know what it was, it was warm and he had asked me a question so at the same time the hotness and the answering his question I went, uh and when I did that was it," Gina Ortale, the woman whose life was saved said.

She began to choke.

"I believe Satan tried to take me out that night," Ortale stated.

A total stranger in the restaurant came to save her life.

"She said Heimlich, do you need the Heimlich and I went like this and I could feel my legs buckling, stars," stated Ortale.