Longtime KTLA weather anchor Mark Kriski talked more about his stroke in May and about his recovery in honor of National Stroke Awareness Month.
“I went down like a ton of bricks,” Kriski recalled after suffering a stroke in May 2024. “I tried to get out of bed and my legs weren’t there. I was tilting to the right all the time, which my stroke seemed to affect.”
Kriski also said he had Wallenberg Syndrome, which involved damage to a part of the brainstem called the medulla, typically caused by a stroke, and his vocal cords had been affected.
“One of my vocal cords, the right one, was paralyzed,” he said. “So that’s why I had such a hoarse voice.”
Kriski said his doctors injected a temporary solution of filler to plump up his affected right cord so that both the left and right cords could meet and work properly again for speech.
Kriski came back to KTLA Morning News on April 3. He said that although he’s glad to be mostly recovered, he did note that the incident changed his life.
