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In 2016, I experimented with IV opiates for the first and last time...
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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...
My NDE took place in 2013, in the hospital...
I was doing an intense, group cross-fit workout when my cardiac arrest occurred...
I was strapped onto a T-Bar in the surgery prepping me...
I was drinking vodka straight out of the bottle...
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I was drowning in a rip current...
I have had an interest in the effects drugs/alcohol produce ever since I first tried them in 2011...
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On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
I was nervous...
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After taking drugs, I went to sleep...
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I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
