Joan S Anesthesia
When I was a teenager, I was put to sleep to have all 4 wisdom teeth surgically removed...
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When I was a teenager, I was put to sleep to have all 4 wisdom teeth surgically removed...
I think my experience is hard to believe, yet it is real...
I went into cardiac arrest...
July 1, 1988, I was a private in the United States Marine Corps, having just graduated boot camp in April...
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Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
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When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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To explain my first memory is to tap into something the human mind cannot grasp in it's current vessel...
Looking back on my life, I now know that I have had heart problems from an early age...
I was always a spiritualism seeker, since I was a child...
I went from hanging in the closet to lying down on the floor...
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