'Being heard and appropriately treated was the difference between life or death for me.'
— the trailblazing tennis legend whose rise to prominence inspired part of this year's Oscar-nominated filmMomodu Mansaray / WireImage via Getty Images, the decorated athlete suffered serious complications following an emergency C-section to deliver her daughter, Olympia, whom Serena shares with her husband Alexis Ohanian.
"The response was, 'Well, we don't really know if that's what you need to be on right now.' No one was really listening to what I was saying," she continued."Still, I felt it was important and kept pressing."Serena said she developed a cough shortly after and"was hacking so hard that [her] stitches burst," and underwent the first of several additional surgeries"to get restitched.""I wasn't coughing for nothing," she noted.
during or after childbirth than their white counterparts," and"many of these deaths are considered by experts to be preventable.""Being heard and appropriately treated was the difference between life or death for me," said Serena."I know those statistics would be different if the medical establishment listened to every Black woman's experience."
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