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Lower back surgery was sceduled for the morning of February 23, 2015...
I was playing in a high school football game...
On May 11, of 2020, I was at work...
I drank too much alcohol at a New Year’s Eve celebration...
On the morning of 11/27/2015, before going to bed after working the night shift, I started to experience chest pain...
I was at the hospital having a sodium blocker test to see what was wrong with my heart...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
My near-death experience happened 30 years ago, but I still can remember it as if it happened only yesterday...
I was three years on a warm, summer evening...
I was age 15 and having an operation...
On 11/20/2019, I woke up because I was having severe nausea, and an aching in my left arm and lower left chest area...
I was struggling to breath during the night time while I was in the intensive care unit (ICU); 48 hours after anesthesia and aspiration from aspiration pneumonia...
