When Marianne LaPlante walked into the Aldi supermarket on Route 9 in Howell last Friday, she was excited to use her $5 off, grand opening coupon and see what the new grocery store had to offer.

The last thing she expected was to be leaving the store in an ambulance after being resuscitated by a complete stranger.

"We had just started to shop," LaPlante told NJ Advance Media. "I just knew I didn't feel right and grabbed the cart."

LaPlante, who was shopping with her 91-year-old mother, attempted to put her head down but ended up falling to the ground and hitting her head on the grocery store floor.

"We heard a loud crash and someone yell 'Oh my God, help me,' and me and my daughter ran down the aisle and saw Marianne convulsing on the floor," said Lisa Manoy, another shopper in the store at the time.

Many (right) and her daughter. (Courtesy Lisa Manoy)

Manoy had spent 15 years working as a nurse and when she saw a complete stranger in need of help, she jumped into action.

"I was checking her vital signs. Her pulse was very weak, and she was going in and out of consciousness, then she went limp and turned blue and I knew I had to start CPR," Manoy said.

As Manoy performed lifesaving resuscitation on LaPlante, her daughter tried to keep LaPlante's mother calm, while another Good Samaritan applied pressure to LaPlante's headwound.

"It seemed like an eternity," Manoy said, "but two or three minutes later she spit up and the color started to come back to her face."

LaPlante was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance for medical evaluation, not knowing anything about the woman who had saved her life.

"That whole night I was so worried about her, and I knew the hospital wasn't going to let me in to see her and I only knew first name," Manoy said.

She thought it would be impossible to find out the identity of the woman she had helped, and if she was alright.

LaPlante said she has yet to receive a definitive diagnosis for her episode in the store, but is home and feeling better. While home, thinking about the stranger, she did the only thing she could think of -- wrote a thank you note to the woman who had resuscitated her, and posted it to a local community Facebook page. She was unsure if the woman who saved her life would ever read it.

Update: Good samiritin found and connected. Happy ending! We hope this thank you gets to the good samaritan that was at Aldi's yesterday and helped save this woman. Please share. Posted by Howell Happenings NJ on Friday, October 12, 2018

The post was shared by over 200 people, which prompted Manoy's daughter to see it that morning.

"I didn't feel like an angel or a hero or anything, I just felt like an ordinary person trying to do something good," Manoy said.

Thanks to the Facebook post, LaPlante and Manoy have been able to exchange numbers and are in the process of making plans to meet each other in person.

"I really didn't anticipate to connect with her, especially so quickly," LaPlante said. "I just don't know the right words to say to the people that were around me."

"Someone was looking over us for us to meet." Manoy said. "And, I'm so touched by everything I wish there (were) more people out in the world that could be more compassionate."

Olivia Rizzo may be reached at orizzo@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @LivRizz. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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