An April 11 wedding ceremony at Pomme in Radnor for a Downingtown couple was sidetracked to the Lankenau emergency room when the bride suddenly collapsed, writes Aubrey Whelan for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“I just started convulsing. … It was really scary,” bride Melissa Kellogg recalled. “I went down , hard.”
Kellogg, set to marry Derek Graham, had suffered a seizure 30 minutes before her wedding after posing for photos with the wedding party.
She was rushed to Lankenau Hospital’s emergency room in Wynnewood.
Doctors concluded she had an isolated seizure possibly triggered by wedding-day stress, dehydration and not sleeping or eating.
While Kellogg stabilized in the Lankenau ER trauma bay, it was decided that nothing would spoil the wedding for the two 36-year-olds.
Nurses decorated the trauma bay with streamers and balloons kept on hand to celebrate colleague weddings and new babies.
The officiant, Graham’s brother, was redirected to the emergency room to perform the ceremony. A few close family members were on hand.
“I went from having one of the scariest moments of my life to having the happiest moment of my life — getting married. Even if it was in the hospital,” Graham said.
Read more about this emergency room wedding in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
