A woman admitted she and her mother laughed at her father when they thought he was imitating Joe Biden, before realising he was actually having a stroke.
Talor Byrne, known by her TikTok nickname Queen Tayracked up more than 3.5 million views with a video taken from the ICU after his father’s medical emergency.
“I don’t want to laugh but my dad had a stroke while watching the presidential debate tonight and my mom said he started speaking incoherently and stumbling around,” she captioned the video.
“She thought he was just making fun of Biden.”
Byrne revealed in a GoFundMe Update that his father suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, a form of brain hemorrhage that has only a 26 percent survival rate.
Talor Byrne, known by her TikTok nickname Queen Tay, racked up more than 3.5 million views with a video taken from the ICU after her father’s medical emergency.
The TikTok user said that when she first arrived at the ICU, ‘she told the nurse and even she laughed.’
But while commentators praised her father’s ‘method acting’ following President Biden’s disastrous debate performance, where he stumbled over his words and lost his train of thought, Taylor revealed that his father’s condition is no reason. of laughter
She said that after her father arrived at the local hospital, they were forced to pay for a helicopter transfer to another facility because they did not have the proper equipment to help him.
Hospital officials quoted them $25,000 for the airfare alone, and estimate their lengthy rehabilitation could cost more than $100,000.
Despite suffering a hemorrhagic stroke, a rare form that occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures, Taylor said in an update Friday that her father is “becoming more stable in the ICU today, by a miracle.”
‘This is the most difficult form of stroke to survive. By the grace of God, he is alive and was able to say a few words to us this morning,’ she continued.
President Biden came under scrutiny after a Thursday night debate performance in which he got stuck on his lines and lost his train of thought numerous times.
‘He knows his name, mine, my mother’s, where he lives and can hold numbers with his fingers. He can’t talk or walk properly yet.
“He thought he had been there a long time and was saddened to find out he had only been in the ICU for 12 hours. I can’t imagine what this all feels like.”
With a long road to recovery ahead, she said her father will need speech therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation work, and the money from the fundraiser will go toward his mounting medical bills.
Taylor added that her father is the only worker in her family who supported her and her mother for years, and now she is forced to crowdfund as she is suddenly chained to huge medical bills.