Julie Chin, an Oklahoma news anchor suffers a stroke on live TV
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An Oklahoma news anchor “Julie Chin” revealed that she suffered the beginning of a stroke during a live broadcast after she stumbled on a few words.
Here is everything you need to know.
Oklahoma news anchor suffers ‘beginnings of a stroke’ live on air
Julie Chin, who works for the NBC affiliate KJRH in Tulsa, was talking about NASA’s canceled Artemis-I launch on Saturday morning. However, while delivering the news she was unable to read the words off her teleprompter.
Chin appeared to look bewildered as she tried to push ahead with the story. But moments later, she was completely unable to speak the script right in front of her.
Chin then went off her script as she said, ”I’m sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody.’
Tulsa news anchor Julie Chin has the beginnings of a stroke live on the air. She knew something was wrong, so tossed it to the meteorologist, as her concerned colleagues called 911. She’s fine now, but wanted to share her experience to educate viewers on stroke warning signs. pic.twitter.com/aWNPPbn1qf
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Moreover, she tossed the broadcast over to the weather team as she continued, ‘Let’s just go ahead and send it on to meteorologist Annie Brown.’
Nevertheless, Brown took over the broadcast and responded with a laugh, ‘Julie we love you so much, we love you so much. We all have those days.’
Regardless, instead of returning to the airwaves, Chin’s colleagues called 9-11. Soon after, she was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Julie Chin issues a statement about the stroke
Julie Chin took to her Facebook profile on 4th September Sunday to give an update on her health status following the scare. She mentioned that she was in good health.
She then said, ‘I’m glad to share that my tests have all come back great. At this point, doctors think I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke.’
Furthermore, she continued, ‘There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.’
She added, ‘The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt great before our show.’
Additionally, she claimed, ‘However, over the course of several minutes during our newscast things started to happen. First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little bit later my hand and arm went numb.’
Chin recalled, ‘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. If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn’t come.’
