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On May 7, 1978 at about 10:20 p...
I was around 5 years old playing in a field with my step brother...
I experienced cardiac arrest while on the operating room table for a stent implant...
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
I was walking toward a beautiful, bright, white light...
I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
I can remember being underwater and fighting the wave that had sucked me under...
My appendix ruptured...
I was brought into the ER by ambulance...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
It was the end of my pregnancy which had been problem free but, after the last gynecological appointment, I started to bleed...
