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I was in extreme pain and feeling very weak, so my wife called my personal doctor, who instructed her (with the help of my priest-friend) to take me to the hospital emergency room immediately...
As a family we had gone for a swim in the pool...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
I had been riding my motorcycle like I have done so for many years with a high level of competence...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
The third strike of the club put me down to the floor almost instantly...
I was in the bathroom and turned from the sink to the towel bar and the next thing I knew, I was at the ceiling floating...
I had gone in for surgery on my left ear...
I had a very bad kidney infection, running 105 fever...
I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
I was about eight years old...
On a Saturday afternoon around 3:00 pm, I told my father that I would go around the pond and come back...
