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I was strapped onto a T-Bar in the surgery prepping me...
I was drowning in a rip current...
I have had an interest in the effects drugs/alcohol produce ever since I first tried them in 2011...
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What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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I was struck by a yellow pick up truck...
This happened to me about 4 years ago, so my memory of the day leading up to the event is very foggy...
On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
I was nervous...
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In the summer of 1996, I was 25 years old and living in Lake Louise, Alberta Canada...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
For years, I was an obnoxiously militant atheist...
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I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
