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I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
It was a normal day...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
A friend dunked my head under the water and I did not know how to hold my breath...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
