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: My name is Cathy S...
: It was around 1:00 AM and I was asleep...
: My grandfather had been sick for quite sometime before the event...
: I arrived at the hospital where my Father lay dying...
My mother witnessed a two-day period of agony watching my 7 year- OPIS DOŚWIADCZENIA: Moja mama była swiadkiem 2-dniowej agonii swojej córki, 7-letniej Elżbiety, której rozlał się wyrostek (appendix) i bez antybiotyków praktycznie nie miała w szpitalu żadne...
: First off I myself did not almost die...
I was in bad pain, at ten on their scales...
I had had a difficult birth of our first daughter on September 23, 1970...
I was lying on an operation table and I can remember the doctor applying ether...
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer): Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975...
Writing this down is both exhilarating and difficult...
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I was sitting by a campfire at a lake, talking with an older man about rodeos and horses...
