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It's 1992 and my daughter is almost 1 year old...
Because of the prolonged care of my former partner, I was on the edge of exhaustion...
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I had been married for only a year and was about 5-1/2 months pregnant with my first child...
I was scheduled for an EUS at the University Hospital in Columbia...
After feeling a really sharp pain in my head, I suddenly found that I was unable to control my arms and legs with my thoughts...
Since age 17, I had heart problems that caused such intense chest pains, that I couldn't sleep very well...
I woke up at 5am with the full moon shining in between the slats of the blinds in my room...
At the time my experience happened, I had been diagnosed with heart trouble...
I was in an abusive relationship after running away from a lifetime of a dysfunctional and abusive home...
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At age 32, I had the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythamatosis...
I was admitted to the hospital with bilateral pneumonia and acute kidney failure...
Here's my mom's near death experience...
