Last summer, Randy Schmitz of Orland Park, Illinois, was enjoying his vacation with family at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. During his vacation, he encountered the Pepper Palace, which is a hot sauce store. There, a promotional challenge was going on, luckily Randy Schmitz took that challenge and put a toothpick dipped in Flashbang hot sauce on his tongue as he was instructed to do.
After taking the challenge for five minutes, he started feeling quite ill. In an interview, he explained his condition in the following words:
"I've done some other challenges in the past - this was possibly the worst one,"
"I made it the five minutes. My sister then said she wanted to take the challenge, but I said, 'You might want to hold off, I'm feeling really sick."
"My head was feeling really off," he said. "Next thing I know, I wake up in a stretcher in a hospital hallway covered in vomit and I had no clue what had happened."
Actually, it was the fit accompanied by vomiting, which made him unconscious. He was immediately taken to the hospital where his MRI report revealed that he was suffering from a cancerous brain tumor.
The 30 years old Schmitz returned to Illinois within a few days. He went through a successful brain surgery to get rid of the tumor at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Afterwards, he received the radiation therapy and is still receiving chemotherapy. He gave all the credits of his new healthy life to the Flashbang hot sauce in the following words:
"They don't know exactly how long it was in there, so it would have just kept growing and might have gotten to the point where they couldn't remove it," he said. "My life would have been over."
