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After I was taken to hospital and in coma, I distinctly remember things...
I had moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1972 from the Chicago area...
I was supposed to be under sedation for heart surgery, I was, according to the team working on my physical body...
I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
I was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes all morning...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
Okay, here is my experience to the best of my ability to convey it; the circumstances that led up to it; and the thoughts and feelings in the weeks following it...
I lost consciousness in the hospital emergency room, stopped breathing...
