What someone having a mild stroke looks like

[Fox]

Scroll down and watch the video of Serene Branson having a stroke on camera. She was always a great reporter and she does the anchor desk sometimes too. Youtube vids are all blocked by CBS so I can't embed it.

www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/14/2011-02-14_video_tv_reporter_speaks_gibberish_in_bizarre_live_report.html

[2strokd]

" :spin: happens to me all the time :spin: " :lol:

J/K, hope she is ok

[Fox]

They said paramedics checked her out and her vitals were normal and she was not hospitalized but was given some time off to get checked out. Maybe the bright light on the camera triggered it. I've heard that can happen.

[2strokd]

Hard to tell what caused it . Something as simple as 'nerves', or even a food allergy could have...Hope it dosnt bother her in the future.

After a really bad accident i was in i had a (sometimes very bad) stutter and or words stumbling problem...
I hit my head and face pretty hard on a dashboard (broke the thing) and for about three years i would do that.
It got kinda aggravating and embarrassing sometimes! I thought it would be permanent but faded with time thankfully.
I will never forget when i asked my wife if i was "different" after the accident because i felt so "messed up" so to speak, and i felt outta place and looked at different.
She told me some of my physical actions had changed but my heart was still the same and she loved me even more.

[Fox]

Man! That musta been a hard impact! Glad you grew outta that stutter. The human brain is the most intricate and least understood organ in all life on this planet. You never know when something's gonna go wrong. Kinda like a Chinese scooter. :rofl:

I got knocked out once in a fall. I went to hop over an 8 ft. wall when I was about 12 and I woke up on the other side with no memory of the fall. Your brain sorta erases that part to protect you I guess. I'm also color blind in that I don't see in black and white like an I Love Lucy re-run but it's hard for me to discern subtle shades like blue and purple for example so my brain isn't working right in that area. It kept me from being a tank gunner when I joined the Army. I ended up in a supply/maint. company that supported armored units so I still got to drive tanks around the compound to test them and wrench on them and even witness them firing up close. I'm glad about it now because now after 20 years years I might have been a changed man if I would have killed a bunch of guys with a tank gun but back then I was young and dumb and just wanted to blow stuff up. You know...

[jimh]

Happened to me nine years ago at work...I was plating up dinner when suddenly, my vision went double, not side by side but vertical, lost my balance and slumped to the floor. I tried to get it together and closed one eye and finished my shift...went to my doc the next morning and he sent me for an MRI. I'd had a mini-stroke and stuttered for a couple of weeks but it went away. Driving home was ok but I had to keep one eye closed to do it. What caused mine was stress/anger/blood pressure.