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I was nearing my fourth year in the U...
My swimming teacher instructed the class to swim to the other end of the pool with a kickboard and by holding it with one hand...
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite things to do was to go outside on 'trash day...
My NDE took place in 2013, in the hospital...
I was strapped onto a T-Bar in the surgery prepping me...
I was drowning in a rip current...
What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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I was struck by a yellow pick up truck...
On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
It was late at night...
I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
