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I did not know who I was...
Nov 27, 2020, was out with friends shopping on black Friday...
I was an RN at a teaching hospital...
On the afternoon of September 21, 2021, I fell ill at work...
I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago in the Englewood district...
I was sleeping, approximately at 5 a...
I was on a group, mountain biking ride in a remote part of San Mateo County and about 20 miles south of San Francisco...
I went into cardiac arrest...
Hi there...
I was doing an intense, group cross-fit workout when my cardiac arrest occurred...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
At that night, June 12 1985 I was lying on my left side waiting to fall a sleep and a question came to my mind: “Will I continue like this the rest of my life, most of the time every year I do manual labor, and to be honest it is drudgery...
