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The pain intensified from mild to severe in less than an hour...
I had had two dreams prior to this event where my mother and my friends were packing a suitcase and telling me I had to go to the hospital or I would die...
I was driving along highway 290 going about seventy mph, when I saw a quick flash of a pickup truck in front of my car...
I was in jail, facing an extended stay...
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I was accosted, stabbed repeatedly and shot twice in the spine...
It was Wednesday morning and I was on my way to work...
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Going into the operating room I had an unusual amount of peace...
I was laying in my bed and I had a catheter, a feeding tube, a drainage tube, oxygen, and talking with my roommate...
I saw the hospital room that I was in (emergency room department)...
It was a Saturday during the day and I was at school...
As my body was separating itself from my spirit, I could actually feel the warmth of my surrounding as I looked down on the emergency medical technicians trying to reawaken me...
I was being wheeled down the hallway to my room after a lengthy registration period by a somewhat indifferent Catholic sister/nurse...
