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That night I suddenly felt ill...
I was eight years old as I was walking through the streets of Breda one day after New Year's Day...
I was face down in a small cluster of trees hiding from my 'abductor'...
Transfusion in the middle of a fourteen hour major kidney surgery that did not work...
I was a passenger asleep in a car that my friend was driving, he fell asleep at the wheel and veered over to the opposite side of the road, we hit another car head on...
My experience occurred during anesthesia (narcosis) that I received after the birth of my son...
Went to the emergency room due to a sudden onset of symptoms: chills, vomiting, fever, headache and progressed weakness over an eight hour period...
I had been dealing with insomnia for a few days and decided to try taking a sleep aid...
It started out like indigestion, so I took some Rolaids and it went away...
My memory of the event is vivid in my memory today but I remember feeling very dizzy when I entered school that morning and I went to my first period history class and passed out...
I was only approximately seven years old at the time of my near death experience...
As a child growing up I've often fainted at school or when too hot...
