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In August of 2004, my oldest son was getting married Saturday...
Following a difficult pregnancy during which I suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, was admitted to the hospital 3 times before I was 10 weeks pregnant...
The panic of being suffocated was too much, so I exploded into darkness...
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I fell to my knees while my mind seemed to shut down like an old fashioned TV screen...
When I was 6, I was lying on the couch...
I was fourteen years of age...
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I was at boarding school...
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I went to donate blood on my college campus...
I became short of breath on June 10th, two days prior to the event with a heart rate of ~144 and oxygen sats around 85%...
When I was 4 years old, I fell sick with peritonitis and my mother took me to the hospital...
In the Army, I was doing flood duty...
Several years previously, I had been using heroin daily and was dependent on it...
