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About eight people counting myself were in a small room talking and having a great time...
When I was playing with my young sister 'to hide' I was running towards our home's roof to hide from my sister...
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I was out of my office after work, when I wanted to pass the road I saw a car in high speed coming in my direction...
The experience took place during the summer of 2002 while I was in Afghanistan as a reporter covering stories for media outlets that I worked for...
I experienced two separate events within a seventy-two hour time frame with the onset of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)...
In November of 1991, I was struck by a car which left me in a deep coma and I was instantly unconscious...
I remember walking and everything went black and next time I was being revived via CPR...
Fisherman, Cuba-Canada long liner, I jumped ship 02/18/2000...
I was seven years old, it was summer and I was as usual spending my summer holiday sailing the seas around Denmark in my parent self-build sailing boat...
Because of the bite of a coral snake (micrurus lemniscatus), during the fifth day after the bite I suffered a breathing break because of the collapse of the left lung...
It was approximately 10:00 at night...
As a preamble to this story, I want you to know that up until that moment (1981), I was used to swimming in swimming pools and quiet waters...
