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I was twelve years old...
On the morning of my event I had just taken a shower and was getting ready to take my mother, who had cancer at the time, for a blood transfusion...
Before the experience, I had been huffing gas regularly for one year...
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Then the first thing I saw was a vision of myself dead on my bed and the landlord coming in the door with his daughter...
I was 14 and was at college...
We had just cleared a 'decoy' surface-laid IED nearby a narrow curve along one of the main maneuver corridors...
I walked towards the orchard, it was silvery white and beautiful...
I was to have an intravenous pyelogram to determine kidney function...
I was 9 1/2 years old and it was mid-winter in Northern Ontario...
On January 3, 2009 in the early afternoon I began feeling gaseousness in my stomach...
After gurgling on the blood in my throat, I looked to the right, and the night sky opened up for me...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
