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On May 15 1991, I felt extreme pain in my abdomen...
At some point, I was looking at my body from above, as a nurse and a doctor stood by me...
I was diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer in May 2012...
I was being prepped to go in to a routine hernia repair outpatient surgery...
I overdosed on purpose...
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I will never forget that day...
I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
I floated downwards into a huge cavern filled with many people...
I was passing through a bright light...
I have no direct recall of the death during the surgery, but afterwards while recovering in the hospital ward I was haunted by an image and memory that I tried to capture in a drawing with color crayons...
I had two failed brain surgeries, one on 01/12/2013, and the other one year earlier on 01/25/2012...
I became increasingly tired over the course of 3 to 4 days and was struggling to breathe...
