An American television presenter was reading the news when at one point, suddenly, she mightn’t string together complete sentences. Later, following going to the ER, she learned that she had had the onset of a live stroke.
What started out as a vocabulary stumble during a newscast for the presenter Julie Chin, ended up being a frightening medical diagnosis. The communicator was reading the teleprompter live when from one moment to another he might not put together the sentences he was reading, following stuttering a few times and saying incomplete words, his co-workers noticed that something was wrong with the journalist.
Julie, who is an anchor for Oklahoma’s KJRH television network, was reading the news for the channel’s Saturday morning slot when had trouble viewing the textdespite trying to resume reading, something made it impossible for him, so he decided to give the pass to his colleague from meteorology.
Hours later, through a post on Facebook, the communicator clarified what had happened to her. “The last few days are still a bit of a mystery, but my doctors believe I had the beginnings of a live stroke.”he began by saying.
“The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt great before our program. However, over the course of several minutes during our newscast, things started to happen,” she explained.
The symptoms that alerted her
To this, the presenter listed what were the symptoms she experienced at the time: “First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little later my hand and arm went numb. So I knew that i was in big trouble when my mouth wouldn’t speak the words that were right in front of me on the teleprompter,” he wrote.
These signs not only alerted Julie Chin, but also her behind-the-scenes team, who took it upon themselves to call 911. “At this point, the doctors believe I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke.”he detailed.
Signs of a stroke
According to Department of Health and Human Services de EE. UU (HHSare its acronyms in English), the symptoms of a derrame cerebral -or Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)- occur in a sudden or with very little notice.
If a person presents trouble walking, dizziness, or loss of balanceconfusion or difficulty to speak or to understand, trouble seeing with one eye or both, numbness or sudden weakness of the face, an arm, or a leg, especially the same side of the body and sudden high-threshold headache, you might be having a stroke.
To these, the health unit of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF Health), Add lack of coordination or tropiezos.
Both entities affirm that receiving treatment in the first hours following the accident occurred is essential, since it might reduce or completely counteract brain injuries.
Meanwhile, the presenter reported that more tests must still be carried out to determine the damage suffered by her brain and with it a treatment. She, in turn, shared a heartfelt reflection on what happened to her: “I have learned that it is not always obvious when someone has a stroke, and action is essential”hill.
