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I was up high looking down on a hospital scene...
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 was in the operating bed looking down at myself with lots of nurses and doctors around me...
I should say that I had these kinds of experiences...
I was living in Iowa...
I was diagnosed terminal and in and out of consciousness for several weeks...
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...
I was in hospital in a seven bed ward...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
I got a shock when I sucked a piece of candy down the windpipe...
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