{"id":403108,"date":"2018-02-21T06:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403108"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:55:08","slug":"facetime-chat-saves-womans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/facetime-chat-saves-womans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FaceTime chat ‘saves woman’s life’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman who had a stroke while on a FaceTime video call with her sister, says the technology saved her life.<\/p>\n
Opokua Kwapong, who lives alone in New York, was on a call with her sister, Adumea Sapong, in Manchester, when Mrs Sapong noticed that her elder sibling “didn’t look right”.<\/p>\n
She raised the alarm after she also noticed her sister’s voice was slurred.<\/p>\n
Ms Kwapong said she had not realised how serious the situation was.<\/p>\n
The 58-year-old had woken from an afternoon nap when Mrs Sapong had called her on FaceTime, a video calling feature on iPhones.<\/p>\n
Ms Kwapong said: “My sister looked at me and said she could see that my face didn’t look right.<\/p>\n
“She also said that I was slurring my words, but I thought she was just fussing and I didn’t believe her.”<\/p>\n
Mrs Sapong said: “When I called Opokua she said that she’d not been feeling well and had been feeling tired and was also having some difficulty walking.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘Perhaps you need to take some aspirin.’ She tried to pick up a glass of water and wasn’t able to. Then I noticed on the FaceTime video call that her face was drooping. I told her she needed to hang up and immediately see a doctor.<\/p>\n
“She thought I was making a fuss so I then conferenced in one of my other sisters, who is a doctor, and she could hear her speaking and could also tell that her speech was slurred. We both told her to call for help straightaway.”<\/p>\n
Ms Kwapong hung up the call and then dialled 911.<\/p>\n
Following hospital scans, Ms Kwapong was diagnosed as having had a clot on the brain.<\/p>\n
The stroke has left her paralysed on her left side.<\/p>\n
Ms Kwapong, who works as a food scientist, said: “There is no doubt that FaceTime saved my life.<\/p>\n
“If my sister had not noticed that something was not right, then things could have been so different.<\/p>\n