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I was in the classroom and we were reviewing a subject...
I was a water-meter reader for the city...
I was on the stretcher going down the hallway of the hospital...
During the school year, I was a Special Education Expressive Arts teacher focused exclusively on guiding others...
It was awful when I got out of surgery...
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Driving down the road, I was going fast through a curve...
In the dead of night, September 6, 1965, Hurricane Betsy had smashed into the Louisiana coastline and the eye of the storm was reported to hit my hometown straight-on...
I remember being enveloped in a gray mist...
After losing control of my car, I went completely unconscious...
During a car journey coming back to Nazca, which is south of Lima, I crashed almost head on with a bus carrying passengers...
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I was in a head-on collision where my car and the other car were each traveling about 45 mph...
During my second semester of college, I battled depression due to overwhelmingly stressful circumstances...
