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About four years ago, a childhood friend of mine, Kelvin, died...
I remember the suffocating feeling of the asthma and next thing I realized that the panic surrounding this feeling had gone and I felt totally unaware of my physical body...
I entered the operating room at 3:30 in the afternoon on the 15th of January 1991, to give birth to my daughter...
I had been out with a girlfriend and had come home...
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I had Lupus, and at the time I was in the hospital for a kidney infection...
I'm in a very, very dark place (frighteningly dark), but I know to look for a light, and I find one off in the distance...
Heart attack occurred in emergency ward of a general hospital as I was being approached by the resident cardiologist...
I did write a poem several months following the experience so I would not forget...
I was in a hospital delivery room; I was surrounded by doctors and nurses...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military...
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In 1992 I had lung surgery...
