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FIRST EXPERIENCE My first experience was in 1951...
I had just ran up the driveway after my son and I had placed a new mailbox in the ground...
I fell and hit my head...
During sex, I suddenly felt as if an axe had been put into my head, and the pain would not stop...
I had a feeling as if I was drowning and could hear my husband crying and saying, 'Mary don't leave me...
After being admitted I was given morphine for the extreme pain and my blood pressure was noted as 190/80...
I was in hospital with osteomyelitis in my hip and very ill...
I collapsed on the side of the road, but I was watching the police pick me up from the bus stop across the street, and I remember thinking that the poor guy was in worst shape than me...
I either get that exact question or something similar, like, 'Does Dying Hurt...
I was thirty-six years old at the time, playing pick-up basketball, full court, with men fifteen years younger than me...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
I went to my dentist to have two teeth extracted...
