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I woke up with a feeling like heart burn in the middle of my chest at 6 am...
I had to go into hospital for an operation on an abdominal hernia which was quite severe as it was several years old and was quite bad...
Heart attack occurred in emergency ward of a general hospital as I was being approached by the resident cardiologist...
Three years before my accidental gunshot wound accident, I was being dragged to my death by a runaway horse with my foot caught in the stirrup of the saddle...
Originally, I was run off the road and kidnapped...
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I was hit by a car and was thrown ten feet in the air and fifteen feet in front of the car...
The night before I attempted to take my life...
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I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
This is a story that my deceased stepfather, Lee M...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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While being transported to Harborview Hospital via helicopter, I found myself floating above my body and looking down at it through the air-grill that lined the radius at the roof line of the interior of the helicopter...
