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It was June 1977...
It was the year 1992, that I turned 40...
On April 19, 1983, I had a motorcycle accident that changed my life...
In February 1995, I had a curettage procedure after a miscarriage; when the doctor administered the anesthetic, he told me to take a deep breath and relax, and that's what I did...
Throughout the week of September 1, 2018, I had an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach...
It was a cold, wet January evening about 5pm...
Several years previously, I had been using heroin daily and was dependent on it...
I was feeling deep despair caused by an incurable disease that was diagnosed by the doctors...
I went into the hospital in the first week of October 2019...
I was having a simple operation under general anesthesia, rendering me unconscious...
I remember being awakened from my sleep when my head start twitching and zinging uncontrollably...
This experience is one of the main reasons I got sober...
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