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My experience completely changed my life during during a surgery over half my life ago...
Zhihu forum 10/27/2015...
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My mom passed away three and a half years prior to when I had this experience...
My mother witnessed a two-day period of agony watching my 7 year-old daughter Elżbieta (Elizabeth) die...
This is an account of the first moments of my life here as best as I can describe...
My experience didn't really seem to have a beginning, I just seemed to become aware...
In 2018, a sudden and severe illness put me into a coma and in the ICU for some time...
We had lost my beloved uncle Dan, in February 2016 after his year-long battle with Stage-4 pancreatic cancer; it would take too long to describe our history, but even as a step-uncle who was only 5 years older than me, he was dear to me from the start...
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It was Saturday, January 11, 1986, and winter in Chicago, Illinois...
I was four months pregnant and travelling in the Philippines...
April 10th was my birthday and the 11th was Easter...
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On Halloween night in 2012, I was riding a moped to my friend's house to hang-out...
