Slow flow, pronunciation problems… This Saturday morning, as American journalist Julie Chin hosts a newscast on NBC-affiliated channel KJRH, she finds it hard to speak. She stumbles over certain words, she has to pause to finish her sentence and then she says:
“I’m sorry. Something happened to me this morning and I apologize for that,” before launching the weather page.
Julie Chin explained this Monday, in a Facebook post, what happened during and after this sequence.
“The last few days remain a mystery but my doctors believe I had a stroke that started live on Saturday morning,” he wrote.
“I felt fine before the show. However, for several minutes during our newscast, things started to happen. First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little later, my hand and arm went numb,” he continues.
He explains that he understood that he had a problem when his mouth “didn’t want to pronounce the words that were right in front of him”, in the teleprompter. Her colleagues called the emergency services and she spent a few days in the hospital.
‘Not a full attack’
“At this stage, the doctors think I had an attack, but not a complete attack,” reveals the presenter, who should fully recover and took the opportunity to send a message of prevention.
A cerebral vascular accident (CVA) “occurs when blood flow to or in the brain is interrupted by a blocked blood vessel (the most common ischemic stroke) or by a ruptured blood vessel (hemorrhagic stroke), in less than 15% of cases” , explains the Ministry of Health on its website.
The symptoms described by Julie Chin are among the most common signs of stroke (deformity of the mouth, weakness on one side of the body, and speech problems).
The Department of Health recommends calling 15 immediately if you see these signs. Il conseille, in attendant l’intervention des secours, d’allonger la personne avec un oreiller sous la tête, de noter l’heure à laquelle les signs d’AVC sont apparus et de regrouper les medical informations (ordonnances par exemple) de la indicated person.
Public Health France, an organization under the Ministry of Health, estimates that more than 110,000 stroke victims are hospitalized each year in France.
Source: BFM TV
