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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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When I was 4 years old, I was in the backyard with my grandpa, the neighbor, and her daughter who was my age...
It was the middle of summer in the Georgia/South Carolina area, and it was very hot outside...
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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It was a weekday on the last week of May 1982...
I was pregnant with twins...
I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
I gave blood at my church's bloodmobile...
That evening, my mother-in-law and her mother were over at my house with my husband and new, baby son...
