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It was New Year's Day evening...
I had gone up to Madrid on work-related business and there, in my hotel, I started feeling ill...
I was playing in my high chair and it tipped over causing me to hit my head on the floor...
I felt like having been thrown into space with a perfect vision of moving away from the earth and entering into a very bright light...
I was admitted to hospital with acute abdominal pain, the surgeon performed an emergency laparotomy (stomach inspection)...
In April of 1995, I was a newly divorced mother of two boys, ages seven and two...
Once I was lifeless on the ground, after a fall, my neighbors and parents came near to check how I was...
17 hours of nonproductive labor before decision was made to do a c-section...
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I suffered a massive heart attack on March 14, 2005, at about 5pm in the evening...
I was on a gurney...
It was April 2006 and I was driving home from an event at my school going about 140 kmh in my car when I lost control...
I was in surgery to repair a broken hip...
