Barrington woman beats the odds and lives to run marathon
April 1, 2005
Barrington health care attorney Stacie Switzer knows what it’s like to face impossible odds and win.
In 2003, she was diagnosed with what doctors thought was an inoperable tumor lodged inside her spinal cord. Tumors on the spine occur in one in one hundred thousand people, but masses that grow inside the spinal cord occur even more infrequently. The tumor in Stacie’s spinal cord was large enough to cover the area between four verterbrae in her neck.
Switzer, who is a former gymnast and current avid runner with five marathons under her belt, was undeterred by the initial diagnosis and visited seven neurosurgeons before she met Dr. Edward Mrkdichian of the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch medical group (CINN). Read more
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