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I was pregnant with my third child (Sofia)...
Three of my friends and I had been coming home from a friend's house around 2:30 in the morning...
I took an overdose...
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Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation Click here to check it out I consider the moment of my death the greatest gift of my life...
I was brought into the operating room for an Endoscopy, hooked up to all the things they hook you up to and oxygen tube placed under my nostrils...
This experience is something that has kept me up at night since I was 3 years old...
I immediately became aware that the end-stage of my labor was giving complications, however I was very relaxed and confident...
March 10, 2014, I was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital by my husband because I was very sick...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
1995 - In the intensive care unit, curtain surrounding the bathroom area, light began emitting from behind the curtain (sort of 'Wizard of Oz'-like - no noise, just light and vibration)...
It was the end of the day on my fourteenth birthday...
It was the year 1992, that I turned 40...
