It’s not a situation anyone wants to find themselves in.
This Oklahoma news anchor went to work that day, ready as always to deliver the news, when she had the beginnings of a stroke on live TV
The broadcast happened on a Saturday, and you can see her appear to struggle to speak during the on-air incident.
Julie Chin, a reporter with NBC affiliate KJRH of Tulsa, is all smiles as all reporters do when they appear live.
But she appears to struggle through a live report regarding the attempted launch of NASA’s Artemis I rocket.
Chin posted on Facebook Sunday sharing that her doctors believe she had the beginnings of a stroke.
Thank goodness it was not a full one.
“The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt great before our show,” she says of her ordeal.
Several minutes into the newscast, the symptoms begin to appear.
“First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little bit later my hand and arm went numb. Then, I knew I was in big trouble when my mouth would not speak the words that were right in front of me on the teleprompter,” she wrote. “If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn’t come.”
Thinking something was wrong with one of the contacts in her eyes, she struggled to read the words on the teleprompter during the morning broadcast on Sept. 3.
It wasn’t her contacts nor was it the teleprompter.
Chin also shared a text message she sent to her husband during the medical episode. She could hardly type the right words.
“I need help. Something is not Run today. My work won’t work is working my help me,” the text she sent reads.
“I never send messages like that, obviously,” Chin says. “I just couldn’t put any words together, as hard as I tried.”
Chin bravely maintained her composure, passing the broadcast to meteorologist Anne Brown, as her co-workers quickly called 911. She calls them “her heroes”.
And Chin is so right.
More tests are being done since her family does not have a history of stroke, but the doctors were not taking any chances.
Chin says they think her body corrected itself midway, hence why it didn’t get worse.
She is now spreading awareness about strokes , especially recognizing symptoms.
A loss of balance, vision changes, facial droop, one arm drifting downward, slurred or confused speech and headache are all early warning signs and it is crucial to seek medical help quickly.
The anchor assured her viewers that she’ll be back at her news desk in a few days.
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability among Americans, and many more women have been reporting that they have suffered strokes, including a few celebrities.
Chin will be back soon thanks to her quick thinking colleagues!
Check out her scary moment on camera below!
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