The husband of a pregnant woman who died after collapsing at a Red Sox game Saturday does not know why his wife died, but Todd Quickenton is relieved his newborn son is doing well.
``I've just got to try to stay strong for Maxwell's sake," he said yesterday in a telephone interview from his home in Schenectady, N.Y., where he is awaiting autopsy results. ``We're going to help each other. I look at him, and it doesn't hurt so bad."
Denise Quickenton, 29, went into apparent cardiac arrest at a Fenway concourse picnic area after the couple moved there from sunny bleacher seats. Temperatures reached 90 degrees that afternoon. She was seven months pregnant and had a history of asthma, but her husband said she seemed fine that day.
``Heat very well may have played into it," Quickenton said. ``I looked in the opposite direction, and when I turned back she was pale and clammy and not breathing and starting to slink out of her seat."
Staff from a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center station at the park arrived quickly but could not revive his wife, Quickenton said. She was taken to the hospital shortly after 3 p.m., where the 4-pound infant was saved.
