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After my first surgery I was extremely weak, tired and in terrible pain...
Due to a medical mistake, I was administered a double dose of contrast liquid [a dye for CT scans] during a tac [(sic) = transient aplastic crisis]...
I arrived at the hospital, bleeding...
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I fell onto a metal railing in the city of London...
I had already taken my prescribed Adderall earlier in the day...
What is it like to have a near death experience...
I was admitted to hospital with a blood disease called sepsis...
I had arrived at the hospital, suspecting that I was having a heart attack...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
