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It's difficult to describe, it was difficult for me to find the right words...
I had bronchial asthma and was having so much difficulty breathing that I was rushed to hospital with my mother...
I was five years old and had pneumonia...
Somewhere about mid-May 2004 life as I knew it I had begun a spiral downhill fast...
The physician arrived in response to the call for help from my husband who had just arrived with my two older daughters...
I had had surgery a week before...
I was ten years old and swimming in a public pool (couldn't swim well)...
It was just right and one of the few memories of a perfect time that I keep...
I was playing in the water near the shore with my brother when I stepped into a big hole and went under...
Saturday or Sunday night I woke up because my blood sugar was too low (hypoglycemia)...
At first I was experiencing the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my life...
Age four, summer morning, Glasgow, Scotland, not long after a garbage strike which saw an infestation of dock rats in my neighborhood, requiring the army to come out and kill them...
