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I was gravely ill and the doctors couldn't seem to find out what I was suffering from...
Let's start at the beginning...
The light was strong and somewhat unearthly at the end of a long tunnel...
I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
I went into premature labor with uncontrollable hemorrhaging...
I felt dizzy while I was speaking on the phone, sitting in a chair in my room at the hospital...
My mother told me the following recollection: She was sick in the emergency room and on a table, lying there and being worked on when suddenly she was floating in the room above her body...
One evening when going back to my room, I got a pain in my chest and fainted...
I was just seventeen years old and staying with my aunt and uncle in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada...
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I had been struggling to breathe for about 24 hours...
[Chinese translated to English, sorry that there may be some errors in the translation since my mother language is not English...
After my heart stopped, I was awake and sitting in the transfusion chair...
