Journalist Katie Couric is sharing a scary medical episode that she experienced on June 27.In a post on Substack titled "The Day I’ll Never Remember," she detailed a sudden episode that left her unable to recall the current month, year and president."I thought it was 2024.And I believed Joe Biden was president," she wrote.ONE WALKING HABIT COULD SIGNAL A HEALTHIER BRAIN AFTER 80, SCIENTISTS SAYThe event occurred while Couric was attending the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, during which she participated in two public panels — one on AI and one on journalism — both of which she cannot remember at all."I have no idea what we talked about, or of what occurred when the panels ended," she said.Journalist Katie Couric is sharing a scary medical episode that she experienced on June 27.
(Getty Images)John Molner — Couric’s husband, who was in attendance at the festival and the two panels — also shared his account.After the event, someone told Molner that Katie wasn’t feeling well.When he reached her, an EMT and a doctor were tending to her.
"I could tell something was off," he wrote."It could have been altitude sickness, but Katie was definitely not all there."WOMAN WITH ADVANCED ALZHEIMER'S REGAINED SPEECH AND MEMORIES AFTER TAKING MAGIC MUSHROOMSAt the hospital, when Couric struggled to recall the year, the president and her grandchildren’s names, doctors began checking for a stroke.An MRI revealed no signs of stroke, which was a relief, but "Katie’s ‘fog’ became a lot more apparent," Molner wrote.John Molner — Couric’s husband, who was in attendance at the festival and the two panels — also shared his account.
(Getty Images)"She repeatedly asked me the same questions: ‘What was I doing before we got to the hospital?’ ‘Why am I at the hospital?’"Couric was ultimately diagnosed with transient global amnesia, a sudden, temporary episode of memory loss that prevents a person from forming new memories and may also erase some recent mem...