When infomercial queen Suzanne Paul woke up after fainting during a Zoom call, it was typical of her to think that she had just been on the floor playing with her dog Matty.
“I thought for a minute, ‘What am I doing down here? It’s not very comfortable – oh, I must have been playing with Matty,’” says Suzanne, recounting her blackout.
“There couldn’t have been anything wrong with me because I’m one of those people who has a cast-iron British constitution and I never get colds, coughs or the flu.”
On September 22, Suzanne had been doing a motivational talk to 250 people for 50 minutes on Zoom when things started going horribly wrong.
“I have no memory of it now, but apparently I face-planted onto my desk in the middle of talking, and was down there for a few seconds before I sat back up and said, ‘Now, where was I?’ Then my eyes rolled back in my head and I went backwards right off the chair.”
Suzanne is laughing as she tells this story, but while it was happening, she was very scared.
“Ryman Healthcare, who I was doing the speech for, thought I was having a stroke, so they switched the Zoom off and started trying to get in touch with me on the phone.”
Suzanne woke up on the floor after a few minutes and found her phone. It was ringing, but she had set it on silent while she did her talk.
“I said, ‘Oh, hello, I don’t know what happened there, where has everybody gone? I think my computer has gone off, so let’s carry on, shall we?’ All they could say was please call an ambulance.”
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