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I was 14 years old...
I experienced a NDE in 2015 after attempting to commit suicide...
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My ex-husband won full custody of our young daughter after having molested her...
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I woke up that morning feeling relatively okay...
My body went into cardiac arrest twice on the same September 2018 day due to alcohol abuse...
I had gone to a New York City hospital for a routine surgery but it was a new procedure...
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When I was a teenager, I had issues with depression and anxiety...
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I was adopted twice; both adoptions were broken by abuse...
During the summer following my junior year of high school, I went on my family's usual three week vacation in northern Wisconsin...
Once I was seated in the armchair in the living room of my house, I began to lose consciousness...
On the afternoon of September 21, 2021, I fell ill at work...
I was 19 and working for a dairy farmer...
