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I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
This experience happened sometime between the time I lost control of my motorcycle and three and half days later when I came out of the coma...
It was a Friday and I stayed home from work, feeling like I had the flu...
My surroundings were filled with light and I was floating looking down on my body, my relatives who were present at the time of the accident and the paramedics...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
On a typical warm summer vacation day during the summer of 1976, I decided to travel with a friend from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Ocean City, New Jersey to enjoy sailing my sixteen feet HobbieCat on the ocean...
I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
Just after they smashed my face with a rock, I felt myself raising from a horizontal position and slowly rising from the surface to an upright position...
When the illness began it was thought I had the flu, but as time went by and the fever worsened I was taken to the hospital for blood test and rheumatic fever was found...
