"It was strange because that's the first time that I ever have been away from the game. I had never missed a practice, the only time was when my husband passed and my mom passed," she said. "It had to be something really eventful or earth-shattering that I would disrupt anything as it relates to practice. I don't miss practice because that's the only thing I take very sacred."
Stringer hadn't been sleeping more than a few hours a night. She'd been drinking a lot of coffee and taking caffeine pills for years. It all caught up with her before she took her leave.