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I had a heart attack when I was 19 years old...
I was swimming when I injured my back, that paralyzed from the shoulders down...
I've only recently wanted to talk about my experience because it destroyed my previous life...
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My experience completely changed my life during during a surgery over half my life ago...
Zhihu forum 10/27/2015...
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My mom passed away three and a half years prior to when I had this experience...
My now ex-husband was angry and held me against the wall by my neck with my feet in the air...
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I was hopping a train and my legs were about to be cut off via catching them on the wheel...
I was playing out on the ice with a couple of buddies, when I fell through the ice...
My experience didn't really seem to have a beginning, I just seemed to become aware...
In 2018, a sudden and severe illness put me into a coma and in the ICU for some time...
We had lost my beloved uncle Dan, in February 2016 after his year-long battle with Stage-4 pancreatic cancer; it would take too long to describe our history, but even as a step-uncle who was only 5 years older than me, he was dear to me from the start...
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