It started with a chest cold that wouldn't go away. After antibiotics proved useless, Jacquie becomes increasingly frightened she may have lung cancer. As a last resort she visits a lung specialist that diagnoses her condition almost immediately.

It took eight months. I was in misery for eight months before I was diagnosed with asthma. My name is Jacquie, and I'm from Mountainside, New Jersey. And I've been suffering from asthma for about 2 and half years now. I thought I had a chest cold and I figured it was going to go away. A few weeks went by and still coughing, and I went to the doctor and they, you know, gave me antibiotics. I took the antibiotics; nothing helped. They gave me a chest X-ray; they didn't find anything wrong. I couldn't exercise anymore. I had to stop going to the gym. I couldn't sleep at night. I was coughing and coughing all night long. I'd wake up; I couldn't breathe. I went back to the doctor, again, and she said, I think it's psychological. I can't find anything wrong with you. So I called a specialist and I said, I am just coughing, I think maybe I have lung cancer or something. I thought really, I had something in my lung.