TV personality Carrie Ann Inaba said she suffered an in-flight “medical emergency” and was taken to the hospital after landing in New York. The Dancing with the Stars judge, 58, said she was “resting up” after becoming “very unwell” on an April 15 flight from Los Angeles to New York, where she was scheduled to work on a campaign with pharmaceutical firm Novartis to raise awareness about Sjögren’s disease, an autoimmune disorder she was diagnosed with in 2013. The disease causes severe dryness of the eyes and mouth. “I was dizzy, nauseous, very warm, and my arms started feeling numb,” Inaba said, adding that a doctor onboard and flight crew assisted her before she went to the hospital and received fluids. Port Authority Police and EMS said they responded to a medical emergency at about 2:37 p.m. on a Delta flight at Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy Airport. Inaba wrote on Instagram that she initially believed she might have had food poisoning but sought help when her arms went numb. “Like many people who live with autoimmune disease, I travel with a health tool kit and am prepared for the worst, but this scared me,” she wrote.
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