It wasn't lodged in the center of her throat, though. So while she might have some difficulty breathing, if anything, suffocation is out of the picture.
She has the thing rammed through her torso, that means her lung there is gone, and her circulatory system destroyed in that area.
That's both internal bleeding and suffocation on the table, she could litteraly drown in her own blood - she probably does actually.
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