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I was holding vigil over my mother's deathbed...
I suddenly found myself in complete darkness...
It was winter...
This whole experience felt like it may have been an hour in length in total...
I was with another 9 year old girl and we were on a private residential pier trying to catch tadpoles...
I have atrial fibrullation...
Prior to my suicide attempt, I was hospitalized 5 times for anxiety and depression...
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I was feeling deep despair caused by an incurable disease that was diagnosed by the doctors...
Extreme fear before losing consciousness...
I grabbed a pillow and blanket, and fell as asleep on my mother's lap on a Sunday afternoon as I wasn't feeling well...
I was floating above the operating table, watching/listening to the staff...
Fifteen minutes after taking a new diabetic injection, I was driving to work at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, forty miles away...
