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I contracted three strains of the mosquito-borne disease (dengue fever) while was working in Mexico...
I just learned about a problem with my pregnacy this morning...
When I was a teenager, I was put to sleep to have all 4 wisdom teeth surgically removed...
This happened when I was about 12 years old...
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...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
I was being treated for diabetes in another country and travel once a month for treatments...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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This has bothered me all my life: I was about 4 years old...
On a beautiful sunny day in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho my little brother Thomas and I were playing in a neighborhood apartment swimming pool...
