Never a dull day at SUBWAY

So today we had a little scare.  It was about 11am, we're in the store.  We get about 5-6 customers in and process them quickly.  A young girl steps up to pay for her food and I give her the credit card back, her friend says something to her.  She looks at me and just goes blank and makes this horrible face with accompanying groan.  I was kinda of puzzled at first.  It lasted for a bout 5-7 seconds, and then I thought to myself, " what is going on here?"  Then her eyes got fixed and dialated and then she started falling backwards.  She was in freefall mode.  With the counter sperating us, I was unable to do anything.  Luckily as she's falling backwards, one of our regular customers, Gabby, was next to her in line and was able to catch her from behind just in time before she smacked the gound with her head.

This girl was having a siezure.  She lay on the ground going through the usual symptoms of a siezure.  Her friend now in total shock and frantic not knowing what to do.   Gabby made sure that the girl was out of harms way as she lay on the floor.  I asked her friend if this was normal?  If this has happened before to her?  Just to find out if she was an epileptic or something worse is about to transpire.   A friends wife just had a brain aneurism, so that was on my mind.  The friend stated that she had not had a siezure in a while and was doing good.

I made the call to 911 and they dispatched the local ambulance and fire department.  While in route she finally came to.  She was out of it for about 10 minutes.  I felt bad for her.  Totally disoriented,  I was used to these types of events working for my mom at various hospitals and such but at least there is immediate help around.

The friend made the call to the boyfriend/husband and he arrived shortly thereafter.  A look of worry accompanied his face.  They took her vitals and made sure she was OK.  She denied the ambulance ride,  can't blame her for that one, they are not cheap.  She was going to go to the hospital for a further check up.  As she got up, she could barely keep her balance and still looked traumatized.  Within a couple of minutes the lobby cleared and everything was back to "normal."  Other people in the complex were now coming down to see what had transpired.    I told them what had happened and they all hoped that she was going to be OK.

The strange thing is,  in the summer of 2006, we had a similar incedent, another young girl had gotten over heated and dehydrated, and passed out in our lobby.  We weren't there for that one.  About a year later, while at a get together with some rock climbing friends at the Orme school where they were teachers, that same girl was in attendance.  She had told us she was exhausted and needed something to eat and drink but waited a little to long, hence passing out in our lobby.  she was so embarassed that she never came back to our SUBWAY.