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I was standing outside at night with two friends when I suddenly felt faint...
I experienced cardiac arrest while on the operating room table for a stent implant...
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
This memory began coming back to me after I had been home from the hospital for about 2 weeks...
I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was pulled from my body...
I had an automobile accident while I was driving alone...
I was surfing on a boogie board in Hawaii...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
I can remember being underwater and fighting the wave that had sucked me under...
My appendix ruptured...
I was brought into the ER by ambulance...
