So on Wednesday evening I took my 89 year old mom to see Wicked- she has been asking to see it for awhile. We get to about 2 songs past intermission and she leans over and says "I feel a little dizzy"- I reached over her to feel her pulse in her neck to see if her heart was beating normally and she sighs and says o boy. Her eyes roll up into her head, her mouth drops open and she goes limp- she is now cold and clammy and unconscious. I jump up and start loudly saying " I need help please help" - lady next to me gathers my mom in her arms so she doesn fall forward out of the seat and I run to the lobby again yelling that I needed help- the usher comes running over and the manager- I tell them what is happening and we go back in the theater and 5 people are now gathered around my mom in the seat, 2 men ask if they should carry her out and I said yes. They laid her down on the lobby floor and at this point I thought she was dead. A dr comes out of the theater, a nurse comes out, 2 clergywomen from Oklahoma come out of the theater all to help. Dr says she has a pulse and after about 5 minutes she starts coming around- EMS took about 15 minutes to get there, they hooked her up to an EKG and she was in Atrial fibrillation- they took us to Mt. Siani hospital and they admitted her and kept her until the next afternoon, they released her to go see her own Dr's here on Long Island. At that point she was still pretty week so I couldn't put her in a cab and take her to Penn on the train so I ended up calling an uber for the most expensive uber ride of my life LOL. I can't believe how many people came out of the theater and missed almost the entire second act to help her and also to stay with me (I was a wreck, my hand shaking so much I couldn't even hold a soda!). The clergywomen were so sweet, they offered to pray with me but I am actually an atheist so I just asked them to pray with my mom because that was more her thing than mine. Thinking back I know I didn't even thank the Dr or the nurse that came out or one of the men who carried her out but I truly appreciated every one of them. One of the men that carried her out stopped by the ambulance as they were loading my mom into it and said he hoped everything will work out- then I recognized him and thanked him for his help!
The funniest part is when they released her from the hospital she asks me "is that show on again today"- I was like "no way in hell are we going to see that show today!!" She really wants to see the end!!