My dad started stumbling and stuttering during Biden debate – we thought he was making fun of Joe but then realized the horrifying truth
A woman admitted that she and her mother laughed at her father when they thought he was imitating Joe Biden, before realizing he was actually having a stroke.
Talor Byrne, known by her TikTok name Queen Tayreceived more than 3.5 million views with a video she made in the intensive care unit after her father’s medical emergency.
“I hate to laugh but my dad had a stroke tonight while watching the presidential debate. My mom said he started talking nonsense and staggering,” she captioned the video.
“She thought he was just making fun of Biden.”
Byrne revealed in a GaFundMe update that her father suffered a brain hemorrhage, a form of brain hemorrhage with a survival rate of only 26 percent.
Talor Byrne, known by her TikTok name Queen Tay, has garnered over 3.5 million views for a video taken from the intensive care unit following her father’s medical emergency
The TikTok user shared that when she first arrived in the ICU, she “told the nurse and even she laughed.”
But while commentators praised her father’s “method acting” after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance, in which he stumbled over words and lost his train of thought, Taylor revealed that her father’s condition is no laughing matter.
She said that after her father arrived at the local hospital, they were forced to pay for a helicopter flight to another facility because they did not have the proper equipment to help him.
Hospital officials asked for $25,000 for the airlift alone, while the cost of his long-term rehabilitation is estimated to exceed $100,000.
Despite suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, a rare type of stroke that occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures, Taylor said in an update Friday that her father “is miraculously becoming more stable in intensive care.”
“This is the most severe form of stroke to survive. By the grace of God he is alive and was able to speak a few words to us this morning,” she continued.
President Biden came under scrutiny after a debate performance on Thursday night in which he stumbled over his lines and lost his train of thought numerous times
‘He knows his name, me, my mother, where he lives, and can hold up numbers with his fingers. He still can’t talk properly and can’t walk.
‘He thought he had been here a long time and was saddened to hear he had only been in intensive care for 12 hours. I can’t imagine what this all feels like.’
She said her father has a long road to recovery and will need speech therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation. The fundraiser will go toward her mounting medical bills.
Taylor added that her father is the only working person in her family who has supported her and her mother for years, and now she is forced to crowdfund because she is suddenly faced with huge medical bills.