>> ^blankfist:

Local news said they don't think she suffered a stroke. They said a stroke doesn't typically make words incomprehensible. Likely this was anxiety.
So feel free to laugh without remorse.


I think you might have skipped over other people's comments before posting that. The official statement from the station is that there was a medical cause which was not a stroke. Others have speculated about the possible cause, there are a few and I think they've covered just about everything. The only things publicly known is that it wasn't anxiety or a stroke.

I've completely got sympathy for people who didn't understand what was going on and thought it was just nerves. I thought so too a few seconds into the video. But since that wasn't the case, it's a bit like laughing at Michael J. Fox. Something best left for Rush Limbaugh.

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Holy crap that's awful! Same sorta thing happened to my Mom -- it's not well known that migraines can often mimic a stroke.
>> ^TheFreak:
So yeah...I had this happen to me once.

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This brought back some bad memories. I watched my mom go thru something similar just before having a seizure due to a brain tumor that we were unaware of. It is certainly not comedy.>> ^kymbos:

Amazing how differently you come at this when you hear she had a possible stroke before you watch the video. Actually, after hearing that news I couldn't even bring myself to watch the video. My mum had a stroke and her speech was affected, her typing - and she didn't know she'd had it. It was pretty terrifying.
Downer that it is for those of you wanting the comedy tag, I think that's why it's not comedy for some of us.

>> ^blankfist:

Why's everyone being so anal about the use of a comedy tag? I'm sure people aren't trying to mock a serious medical condition. At first watching this I found it funny, but that's not because I thought she was experiencing a stroke, it's because I thought she just got nervous which is pretty damn hilarious.


Hear hear. I'm proud to say I did not recant like a child scared to death of being caught smoking behind the shed.

In fact, yep...it's still funny.

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From CBS Los Angeles Web site:

Update on Serene:

As many of you know CBS2 reporter Serene Branson experienced some health-related problems last night during our post-Grammys newscast.

She was examined by paramedics on scene immediately after her broadcast. Her vital signs were normal. She was not hospitalized.

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.

Serene thanks everyone for their concern and good wishes and hopes to be back on the air very soon.

(Taken from Liveleak)
Serene Branson - did she suffer a stroke?

"Well, a very heavy burtation tonight," she said, smiling broadly. But her smile More.. disappeared as her speech devolved into a series of incomprehensible utterances.

To be clear, it's not immediately known what happened to Branson and calls to the station where she works went unanswered at presstime. But a neurologist who watched Branson's episode offered several possible explanations as to what happened to her.

"Stroke is the number one possibility," Dr. John Krakauer, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, told CBS News. Other possibilities, he said, include a transient ischemic attack - a sort of "mini-stroke" that produces no lasting problems - a migraine headache, or a seizure.

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