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Oklahoma news anchorJulie Chinis opening up about her on-air “stroke”.
On Wednesday, Chin spoke to theTODAYshow about the event, which happened Saturday while she was anchoring a piece on NASA’s recently postponedmission to the moonfor KJRH in Tulsa.
Speaking toSavannah GuthrieandHoda Kotb, Chin said that she initially thought she couldn’t read the news teleprompter because of a problem with her contact lens not being “in my eye right.”
Yet she soon realized it was actually something else.
“I wrote that little section, I knew what I was trying to say like the back of my hand, but it just obviously wouldn’t come out of my mouth,” Chin said Wednesday.
Thankfully, the news anchor’s colleagues immediately recognized that Chin needed medical assistance and she was rapidly taken for medical care, she wrote in aFacebookpost one day after the event.
Chin is now home from the hospital and told Guthrie and Kotb that the “initial test results came back great,” but that doctors are still trying to determine why she experienced the episode.
“The doctors right now, they think maybe it was the beginnings of a stroke,” Chin said. “They think maybe my body corrected itself, midway, so I didn’t have a full stroke.”
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Chin, who is in her 40s, told theTODAYhosts that she now hopes her story highlights the need for people to know the warning signs of a stroke and, more crucially, how to act when they arrive.
source: people.com
