Posted on 02/15/2011 1:14:06 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One of the most memorable performances from Sunday night's Grammy broadcast was also one of the most terrifying: Serene Branson, an Emmy-nominated CBS entertainment reporter began speaking gibberish during the network's post-Grammy newscast. However, after initial fears that Branson may have suffered a stroke on-air, she is reportedly doing OK.
"She was examined by paramedics on scene immediately after her broadcast. Her vital signs were normal. She was not hospitalized," the CBS affiliate that employs Branson said in a statement posted late Monday on its website. "As a precautionary measure, a colleague gave her a ride home. And while Serene says she is feeling better today, she wants us to know she followed-up with a visit to the doctor for some medical tests."
Nevertheless, the unfortunate incident, which went viral on YouTube Monday but has since been removed from the site, left viewers wondering what exactly happened, and whether they had indeed witnessed a stroke on the air. You can watch a video of the difficult moment here, courtesy of ABC News:
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There is a sort of macabre bootleg live recording of the Edvard Grieg A Minor Concerto from 1951 with Ormandy and the Philly at Carnegie Hall. The pianist was the legendary Simon Barere. Barere suffered a fatal stroke during this performance.
After the opening tympani roll and the thunderous cascade of chords down the keyboard during the intro you hear a loud clanging discord then a thud as Barere’s dead body hits the stage to screams from the audience.
Then of course there’s baritone Leonard Warren’s famous final exit at the end of his big aria in Verdi’s “Il Forza del Destino” onstage at the old Met........
With you. I don’t think that was a drug reaction. There was some kind of stroke or seizure there.
To go home after that? If you are having a stroke, that first golden hour is essential. You have to have meds within three hours after you have it, or you may end up with permanent brain damage.
There have been many regretful people who have gone home to “sleep it off” after a stroke.
I know this because I have done this several times.
It is probably genetic, and likely a form of slight epilepsy related to dyslexic that is not currently identifiable.
The only way to know for sure is the family history.
I live in LA and CBS2 has been trying desperately to not even mention her name, just saying how she is doing well and she will be back on the job “Soon” the moment it happened, they quickly went away from her, I guess assuming at first(What others might have been thinking) that she was drunk or on something, that it wouldn’t look good for the network to have a drunk reporter doing a live broadcast, but you can clearly see she was NOT intoxicated, something neurologically happened to her and I don’t understand why she was not taken to the hospital. She is well known here in LA, she is a pretty top notch reporter, usually sticking to entertainment stories, sometimes crimes, depending on who they have available. She is very young, looks to be in her early 30s. Last night I was watching CBS 2 and Pat Harvey said that she will be back at work soon and when she is ready to tell everyone what happened it will be on her terms. Hope its nothing too serious but to me it looked like a stroke or a precursor to one
If she were having a stoke or a paramedic thought she might be having a stroke they would have brought her to the hospital.
If she were drunk and or high, the paramedics would have told here to get someone to drive her home so that she could sleep it off.
And if she were a 65 year old reporter at the Southern Baptist Convention, I would have a different view. However, this is a 28 year old woman at the Grammys in Hollywood.
Either that was a seizure or someone slipped something into her Evian.
Probability is that it was a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack). Mimics a stroke, but there is no blood clot. They can go from a mild tingling in the face, an inability to talk (as in this case) to what appears to be a full-blown stroke. Recovery time can range significantly.
I know, because I deal with these weekly. An occasional TIA is a warning sign. But, like I deal with, these are effectively on-going shorts that can severely affect your ability to work, to walk, or do other normal activities. The only good side is they won’t kill you like a stroke will.
My Mother had one of these.
I went to get her for lunch and she was doing the same thing. Scared the you know what out of me.
I took her to the er and after tests the Docs said she had an eschemic stroke.
By the time we left she was speaking just fine.
Very scarey. She didn’t realize what had happened either.
What’s weird is that the rest of her body seem fine. No strange movement, but of course we did not see what happened after the camera stopped rolling. She apparently went to see the doctor the next day but why was she not hospitalized, if something like that happened to me I would rush to the emergency room. I hope she doesn’t have a brain tumor, or I was even thinking about ALS last night. Reading those comments on yahoo are really a shame, to see people laughing at what happened to her, mocking her, its disgusting. Just shows what has happened to our society
Happened to a friend of mine whose husband took her to the ER. Diagnosed a mini-stroke - transcient ischemic attack. Hope I spelled that right. She’s on a baby aspirin a day but another person might be put on a different dosage. Always best to get these checked out.
Quite an informative thread. You never know what you’re gonna learn here.
I had lunch with my father (a retired neurosurgeon) and he said that usually the symtoms from a TIA will take a day or so to clear up, however a partial seizure may have been what the reporter suffered.
In adults (over 25) the seizure is triggered by a tumor in 2 of 3 cases, and unfortunately, the tumor can be a glioma (very bad).
She needs to get a complete workup by a neurologist.
Prayers for her and hope for simple and benign cause.
Hope it isn’t a tumor. Maybe a seizure of some type?
I hope she gets an MRA (deep brain MRI). A couple of years ago my husband had a stroke. *I* knew it was a stroke but the ER docs did CT scan and MRI that showed no stroke. Docs were insisting he go home. However, he couldn’t stand. So they admitted him to the “We Don’t Have A Clue” unit overnight. The next day they did the MRA and, lo and behold, he’d had a stroke!
This gal should nto trust to the standard ER protocol. *Something* happened. It may have no permanent effect, like my husband’s stroke, but she really has to know what it was.
I just watched the video, and that is the exact same
thing that happened to me, the exact same way that I talked. The doctor thought I had
had a stroke, but it turned out that I had an aneurysm that hadn’t ruptured yet, but was seeping blood into the brain.
I hope they check for that!
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