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I was lying on my bed in my bedroom at my grandmother's house...
I remember getting into the medicine cabinet and taking the valium, a lot of valium...
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I was living with my parents at the time (failed marriage - tried to re-establish myself financially)...
I was rather ill and had a high temperature, about 39...
I was over at my cousin's house for a pool party; I remember everything that happened so vividly...
I felt dizzy while I was speaking on the phone, sitting in a chair in my room at the hospital...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
After I was shot, I ran about a hundred yards...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
