Mother who died on flight house from getaway drank mojitos the day in advance of

The Indiana mother of two who died on a flight residence from the Dominican Republic final 7 days sipped poolside mojitos and indulged in a steak dinner the night time in advance of she out of the blue fell sick.

Stefanie Smith, 41, was seemingly the image of well being in the course of her 5-night time continue to be at the Iberostar Grand Bavaro in Punta Cana, her good friend and journey pal Maria Yannotti told the Day-to-day Mail.

“The amount of drinking never went outside of what I would contact a wonderful small buzz. We pretty substantially experienced the exact drinks. We loved the strawberry mojitos made with Malibu rum,” she informed the outlet of the vacation, which also integrated outings to the resort’s 5 eating places in in between hrs at the seaside and by the pools.

On the final evening of their journey, Smith, Yannotti, and their companions satisfied for evening meal at El Galeon, which bills itself as a luxe surf and turf eatery.

Equally Smith and Yannotti had the ribeye steak paired with a bottle of Moscato, the latter recalled

“It’s five-star, quite safe. I always felt pretty secure. The food items was wonderful. Anything was quite cleanse, extremely upkept,” Yannotti advised the Day by day Mail of the meal.

No one on the journey complained about the foodstuff or experience unwell at any place, she pointed out.

Smith, an X-ray tech with two teens at household, also routinely visited the resort health club and ran along the white sandy beaches, the friend explained.

“Stefanie was a ball of energy and individuality. She was so a lot enjoyable to be around. She could make any individual smile,” Yannotti lamented.

Yannotti and her spouse ended up traveling household to Georgia several hours immediately after Smith and her boyfriend’s first return flight to Charlotte took off on Feb. 28, she defined.

She got her very last textual content from Smith all around 4:55 p.m. Japanese time, which study “Remind me to phone you when we land in Charlotte, to notify you a funny tale.”

Significantly less than two hrs afterwards, having said that, Smith’s flight diverted to the Turks and Caicos after she started out convulsing in her seat.

She was rushed to the area clinical heart, exactly where she was declared useless. 

“We ended up sitting down in Miami on our layover. The boyfriend named and mentioned that he experienced something to explain to us. He mentioned Stefanie had died. She’s absent and he wasn’t sure what happened,” Yannotti advised the Day by day Mail.

“He said he appeared at her and her head was tilted back again into her seat. Her eyes have been rolled into the again of her head and he assumed she was making enjoyable of him at very first,” she continued.

“Then she started off convulsing and that is when he referred to as for assistance and they carried out CPR and the pilot determined to make the connect with to land,” the heartbroken close friend mentioned.

“It floored me. I was in comprehensive shock. I had been texting her just minutes before we obtained that cell phone get in touch with,” Yannotti added.

Smith’s good friends and family — including her 18- and 16-calendar year-outdated children — are awaiting the final results of a non-public autopsy, the Day-to-day Mail described.

“What’s happened is just devastating for every person. We don’t know if it was just a freak incident or a little something a lot more. Till we get the autopsy back again, it is just a total thriller,” Yannotti reported.

She had no recognized, pre-current health circumstances, her brother, Chris Volz, explained to the Each day Mail.

“Stefanie had just designed a brand name-new attractive house. She had a great occupation, two excellent youngsters. She had certainly every little thing heading for her,” Yannotti stated unfortunately.

“We all say lifestyle is shorter, stay every single day like it’s your previous, that form of thing. But you don’t actually recognize what that usually means until one thing transpires to another person you really like,” she admitted.

As of Friday early morning, a GoFundMe for Smith’s youngsters experienced lifted $87,000 of its $100,000 goal.