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I found myself outside of Creation, in a gray immensity with no end...
The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
It was irreversible fear...
Hello...
The summer between my eighth and ninth year of school was the longest, and most difficult of my life...
I heard and saw the doctor giving me too much anesthesia and the surgeon saying, 'Damn it, you gave her too much, you killed her...
Somewhere about mid-May 2004 life as I knew it I had begun a spiral downhill fast...
It was just right and one of the few memories of a perfect time that I keep...
I had a feeling of extreme peace and I loved being where I was...
I was coughing up fluid from my lungs, which had accumulated in my windpipe...
Swimming in a pool and suddenly panicked when I could not reach the side of the pool...
I had been visiting family, up late, having gone to bed around 12:30 a...
