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I was on the stretcher going down the hallway of the hospital...
During the school year, I was a Special Education Expressive Arts teacher focused exclusively on guiding others...
It was awful when I got out of surgery...
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In the dead of night, September 6, 1965, Hurricane Betsy had smashed into the Louisiana coastline and the eye of the storm was reported to hit my hometown straight-on...
I need to start by saying that I was born with double pneumonia and did not get to go home until 6 weeks after I was born...
I remember being enveloped in a gray mist...
I was in a head-on collision where my car and the other car were each traveling about 45 mph...
I took a very large overdose, which caused a stroke...
We were playing a child game of squeezint each other...
Weeks before the event, I had this foreboding that something major was going to happen to me, but I did not know what...
My NDE occurred when I crashed a party of teenagers older than myself...
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Four days before my 16th birthday, we had our walls painted in our family house...
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