![]() “So, I went to the emergency room and they did a battery of tests.” “There was a day when I couldn’t breathe and felt extremely fatigued and on the verge of passing out, with my heart racing,” she says. It’s a world, she says, that often feels foreign and unwelcoming “for people who look like me.” The ‘Sense’ of IllnessĪ resident of Chicago’s diverse suburban community of Oak Park, Stigger was completing her master’s degree in education when, she says, she began feeling “tired, faint, a bit off.” Sophisticated and knowledgeable about her family’s medical care, she tried to brush the symptoms off. Now a five-year lung cancer survivor, the 40-year-old mother, wife, and teacher is an activist who freely shares her experiences and hard-won wisdom to help others deal with the medical establishment. She says the fact that she is a Black American, and a woman, has everything to do with it. Her doctors didn’t believe her - for a full six months. ![]()
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