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I was up high looking down on a hospital scene...
I was on the Mississippi River and stepped off a sandbar without a life jacket...
I was in the operating bed looking down at myself with lots of nurses and doctors around me...
I should say that I had these kinds of experiences...
I was diagnosed terminal and in and out of consciousness for several weeks...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
I'd first like to highlight the fact that English is not my native language...
After gurgling on the blood in my throat, I looked to the right, and the night sky opened up for me...
I hit my head on a bar and fell backwards...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
I passed out at home and went unconscious...
On the day of the near death experience I had just gotten into bed for the evening...
