How 'Dr. Pimple Popper' Sandra Lee Realized She Was Having A Stroke

追加: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]It's great to see you.

[00:00:01]It's always good to see you, but it does feel especially good to see you >> [music] >> now with how scary this experience must have been for you. Yes, it was. It's It was a scary thing. It's still a scary thing. You know, you still think about it any moment that you feel like is there more stress in my life or are you in the same place? Like are you filming the show and this is happening? Is it going to happen again? Yeah. You know, so it's really scary. It's just It's something that you don't think will happen to you.

[00:00:28]>> Right. We don't know how she is, but it's pretty bad.

[00:00:32]>> So I had been flying like I had two coast-to-coast flights like back-to-back the week before and then I had just a lot of stress. It happened on the right side of my [music] head, my brain, and so you have like deficits on the opposite side. So I essentially like went to sleep. I wasn't feeling well, but I woke up in the morning and I felt like I was having some trouble on my left side.

[00:00:52]>> Since Dr. Lee has a medical degree, she was able to do a self-assessment, but says everyone should know the warning signs. So I was holding my hands out and my left side [music] would collapse a little and I'm I'm like, am I fooling myself? You know, is that really happening?

[00:01:04]>> Right. And so then I tried to speak. I was by myself in my room and I thought, you know, I know that this could also be associated with slurring. So [music] I tried to speak and I noticed that I had a little diffi- difficulty speaking like articulating, you know? And so I was like, okay, what is happening? Is this a panic attack?

[00:01:20]>> The ER confirmed her worst fear. [music] After she was treated, she took time off to recover, but she was anxious to get back to her patients.

[00:01:27]>> [music] >> I'm um it's hard. It's very frustrating to not be able to move around and do things.

[00:01:38]>> Thankfully I'm right-handed and this is my left hand, but still my left hand is just as important as my right. I can't I can't do surgery one-handed. So Right.

[00:01:45]>> [music] >> And your recovery looked like what?

[00:01:47]Right? So you you get out of the hospital >> like occupational, physical, you know, therapy. Like I play the guitar, so I really tried to play more of the guitar to kind of like retrain your brain to kind of communicate.

[00:01:57]>> What's [music] in place now that wasn't before that helped you mitigate some of this stress? Help you handle some of this?

[00:02:04]>> I mean like I can't push myself. I know that if I push myself too much, like we were just at a press tour in New York and I was like, you know, I'm going to bed. I'm not having a drink. I'm just relaxing. I'm not like out there being crazy or anything and I just try to pace myself.

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