Dr. Robert Cole
At first, it was the Light, a brilliant, white light, without reflection and without glare...
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At first, it was the Light, a brilliant, white light, without reflection and without glare...
My husband and I were riding our motorcycle when we had a terrible accident...
I have always had severe asthma...
Growing Up I was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest daughter in a family of five children...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
I had a bad asthma attack which landed me in the hospital...
I made a pact with God to take me in a major heart attack: I had been suffering physically and emotionally most of my life...
I was 4 and almost 5 years old...
My experience took place a litle over three months ago...
I lived in a very small community in a rural area where everyone knows everyone else...
This happened to me back in 2003 and I still remember this as vividly as the day it happened...
In 2005, I went to the hospital because I tried to drink a cup of coffee and where I thought it was, I couldn’t grab it...