A woman modeling for an art class fell from a table Thursday afternoon, sustaining a bruised brain, fractured skull and the loss of hearing in her left ear.
The Hanover Fire Department took Rebecca Wheeler, 23, from The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at 3:14 p.m., College Spokeswoman Karthryn Clark said yesterday.
Wheeler, who was posing for an intermediate modeling class, is not a student at the College.
"I was on a platform covered with a sheet. It was really, really hot because of the lights," she said. "I said to this guy in the front row, I think his name was Tim, 'It's awful hot in here.' Then I passed out."
Jake McDaniels, an administrative coordinator at the hospital, said Wheeler is resting and is in stable condition.
Wheeler, contacted in her room at the hospital, said she is resting but said her face is swollen and she cannot hear out of her left ear.
Wheeler, of Chelsea, Vt., said doctors told her she might not regain her hearing.
Clark said Wheeler fell from a table in room 131 in The Hop. The room is next to the Courtyard Caf e .
McDaniels said yesterday Wheeler sustained a "closed head injury" and added that he was unsure how long she would remain in the hospital.
Wheeler, a mother of three, said she could not remember her name Saturday.
She said she has not considered suing Dartmouth and was unsure if there were any grounds for a suit. She said she needs to get another CAT-scan.
The Fire Department wheeled Wheeler away on a gurney. She was not unconcious when she was taken away.