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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...
I had a fast childbirth, but the doctor was not ready...
I was lying face first on the living room floor after having one of my many grand mal seizures and my boyfriend picked me up and laid me on the couch while my grandpa called the ambulance...
My ulcer literally exploded as soon as the cauterizing needle touched it...
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...
I was at the Eighth Army field hospital being treated for malaria in Nha-Trang, South Vietnam...
I had moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1972 from the Chicago area...
I was in the hospital for emergency exploratory surgery; I did not want to go, because I went to the doctor with female problems...
I did write a poem several months following the experience so I would not forget...
I was hit by a car and was thrown ten feet in the air and fifteen feet in front of the car...
