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I was riding my bike in the middle of the day in an area that had no trees (it was just planted farmland)...
I was attacked by my husband's ex-wife...
I was in a head-on collision where my car and the other car were each traveling about 45 mph...
I was prescribed a painkiller following oral surgery...
I was in a car, with my friend...
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The bedroom was filled with the heat of my restlessness...
I was standing in the kitchen of my home...
I was five years old and had pneumonia...
I was admitted to the hospital to have a scheduled spinal column surgery...
I did not leave my body...
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I won't go into how I ended up where I did but there I was in a small aluminum boat looking at a huge black wall, knowing in a few seconds we would hit and thinking I can only do what I can do - I couldn't remember until a few months ago what happened next...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
