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On May 15 1991, I felt extreme pain in my abdomen...
I briefly 'saw' both what would be considered Heaven and its counterpart...
I woke at 3:15 on the morning of the 20th in intense pain and called an ambulance almost immediately...
My now husband was driving down a country road and did not see that there was a dead end on the road, that dropped about seven or eight feet down, and then there was about a four foot wall of dirt...
When I entered the operating room and was given anesthesia, they told me to count...
In 1974, I had a near-death experience...
In 1986 I was twenty-six years old...
At some point, I was looking at my body from above, as a nurse and a doctor stood by me...
It was just a week after a cesarean at age 23...
I fell during gym class and fractured my skull...
I was pregnant with my third child (Sofia)...
I was a three week old baby at the time...
