Customers save employee during medical emergency

CEREDO, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- If you are ever in Ceredo grabbing a bite to eat at McDonald’s, you may see two men named James Adkins and Zachary Carter.

They are co-workers there, and during breaks they usually take the short walk over to the Speedway to grab something to drink.

However, one evening, something was off from the moment they walked in.

“We always come in, there’s always someone at the counter, greets you. Just on this day there was no one at the register,” Adkins said.

After realizing there was no employee to be found, they started hearing someone coughing.

Instead of leaving or waiting around, Adkins and Carter checked the aisles, freezers and bathrooms to try and figure out what was happening.

They eventually found the employee in a back room alone, experiencing a medical emergency they would later find out was a seizure.

“She doesn’t remember going from the register to the back room,” Adkins said.

With the help of a third customer who came in, they were all able to get the help she needed.

“Watching them carry her out was like, I hope she makes it,” Adkins said.

The employee’s mother, Gayle Womack, says her daughter, Megan, has been having seizures for 30 years now.

Womack says she felt helpless in those moments after getting the call, rushing to the hospital.

She said Megan was in a drug-induced coma for three days, and is now recovering at home.

“Hold on to them tight. She could have been gone. Just don’t take life for granted,” Womack said.

Womack took to Facebook to try and find who helped save her daughter’s life, and eventually connected with Adkins and Carter.

“I got in touch with them, and we both went to their work and met them and hugged them and thanked them,” Womack said.

Call it a gut feeling, or maybe a sign from above -- but Adkins says there was something telling them to stick to their routine of stopping at the Speedway that night.

“Thanks to James and Zack. I know now there are still good people out there,” Womack said.