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My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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I went from hanging in the closet to lying down on the floor...
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I overdosed on multiple types of drugs...
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During the winter of my freshman year in high school, I was in a group called the Civil Air Patrol...
My ex-girlfriend went psychotic...
On February 17, 2000, I was traveling with my family to go on a weekend vacation...
I was 6 years old and in surgery for a tonsillectomy and an adenoidectomy...
I fell through a roof...
I’ve always had a memory of this experience, but didn’t know where it came from...
On March 28, 2005, I was overdue to have my son, so I went to the hospital to be induced...
My swimming teacher instructed the class to swim to the other end of the pool with a kickboard and by holding it with one hand...
