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and the band played on.... something new happened
and the band played on.... something new happened
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Jim Rumbaugh
1060 posts
Dec 07, 2014
6:39 AM
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We had a situation Friday night at the church Christmas performance. During the second tune, someone in the back had a seizure and fell out of her chair….. and the band played on. We could see people taking care of her…. And the band played on…. No one from the church seemed alarmed…. And band played on. The EMTs arrived … and the band played on. Finley some one suggested, “let the EMTs work in silence”, so we finished our tune. After about 5 minutes, the EMTs walked her out and took her to the hospital. As the leader and band front man, I led everyone in a brief prayer for Sara (I was told her name) …. And the band played on.
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jawbone
561 posts
Dec 07, 2014
7:48 AM
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Well, it worked for the Titanic...no, wait...
Never mind !!!
Hope Sara is OK.
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nacoran
8148 posts
Dec 07, 2014
12:39 PM
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Hope she's okay.
My senior year in high school our choir got to perform for the local PBS channel's Christmas special. We put on our wool choir robes and stood under the TV lights all packed together. We had to do multiple takes of each song, and the heat started getting to people. We had about half a dozen people straight up feint, but we kept on going. Through the odd magic of editing, when the special aired the camera would pan back and forth (using splices from different takes) and people would be there, then be missing, and then be back again.
I've never had a seizure, but I dislocated my kneecap once playing football before school at the busstop. The bus came and I couldn't get up. They called an ambulance. This was a recurring injury. It had happened before and would happen again. I knew I needed to ice it and use crutches for a couple days, but I couldn't get on the bus at that moment, and they wouldn't let me move or let anyone move me. The bus driver was legally responsible for me at that point, so he wasn't taking the bus anywhere until the ambulance got there. So I sat there on the ice (which actually felt pretty good) acutely aware that everyone was looking at me. At that moment, I would have really preferred if there was a band playing.
I've got a couple friends with epilepsy. Seizures are no fun, but all things considered, as long as a couple people were making sure they were okay, (making sure there is nothing right next to them they can whack into, that they aren't going to get hit by a car or have a door opened on them) they usually don't want people to make a fuss. They always apologize for making a scene (even although obviously it's something beyond their control). So, playing on may well have been a very good decision.
Again, hope she's okay.
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Jim Rumbaugh
1061 posts
Dec 08, 2014
9:49 AM
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@Nacoran
Thanks for sharing and asking. The last report is,"Sara is OK"
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