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I was at home with my daughter (she was two and a half then) when I began to feel very weak and ill...
I still remember it very well...
I had swollen lungs, so I couldn't lie on my back...
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...
After I fell, I felt a tightening in my chest as I attempted to get up...
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...
I laid down for a nap, with a request to my wife to wake me at 3 pm if she didn't hear me up before then - I vividly remember noticing the digital clock in our bedroom showing 1:50pm...
On both occasions a being of white light appeared to me, took my hand, and took me to a door that opened on its own...
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...
