LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Three women sat together on Friday, connected by a life-saving moment that happened during a Vegas Golden Knights hockey game.
Jeannie Cunningham attended a Knights game against Chicago with her friend Linda Fucci when she suddenly collapsed during the first period.
“We watched the first period and we were going to go to the ladies room and she suddenly said, I was really tired,” Cunningham said.
“I could feel myself sliding down the ball onto the steps and I did it in slow motion, I actually felt myself, and some guy started yelling, I was having a seizure.”
Cunningham had never experienced anything like this before. She collapsed and became unresponsive, leaving Fucci in a panic.
Nurse jumps into action
Susie Teems, a nurse who was at the game to enjoy the hockey match, saw Cunningham collapse and immediately responded.
“Then Superwoman came, jumped over fans, and she was the CPR. You were so fast. She took total control,” Fucci said.
Teems, a.k.a Superwoman, was not in a cape or wearing scrubs that night but dropped everything when she saw Cunningham on the floor.
“I just looked at her, and I saw that she was agonal breathing. She was staring straight up, and then I felt for a pulse, and she didn’t have one,” Teems said.
Teems performed CPR until an automated external defibrillator arrived.
“It did take a while to get the AED on her. just doing CPR. That’s what was amazing is basic CPR and AED saved her,” Teems said.
Search for the hero
Cunningham was taken to the hospital where doctors told her she had gone into cardiac arrest. After she recovered, Cunningham and Fucci wanted to find the person who saved her life.
“I just made a little post on Facebook, you know, thank you to the people between 4:00 and 5:00, whoever helped my friend in a medical emergency. That’s all I wrote,” Fucci said.
The post worked. Teems saw it and reached out.
“I said, well, give her my number. I want to talk to her,” Teems said.
The three women have now formed a lasting bond through the life-saving experience.
“Come to a person’s aid because you can do something to help another person,” Cunningham said. “The gratitude that I have for them from the depths of my heart, from my working heart now.”
During their recent meeting, Teems presented Cunningham with a new Golden Knights jersey to replace the one that was torn during CPR the night she collapsed.
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