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I was 14 and was at college...
In 1960, I was 6 years old and drowning...
I walked towards the orchard, it was silvery white and beautiful...
Marshall L NDE Home Classification NDE 3594 Marshall L NDE 7111 Experience Description I was crossing the four lane street in my Honda civic then out of nowhere a truck hit me at 50 mph in a 40 mph zone, I was going 25mph...
I was to have an intravenous pyelogram to determine kidney function...
After being hit by a jeep, thrown couple of feet away from the car's location, and falling on the concrete ground, I tried to get up as quickly but I couldn't as if I was fully paralyzed...
It was 11 pm, I was returning home from university and as a joke I sat on the hood of the car...
I was on the Mississippi River and stepped off a sandbar without a life jacket...
I was 9 1/2 years old and it was mid-winter in Northern Ontario...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
After gurgling on the blood in my throat, I looked to the right, and the night sky opened up for me...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
