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I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was seven years old, it was summer and I was as usual spending my summer holiday sailing the seas around Denmark in my parent self-build sailing boat...
I dove into the deep-end of public swimming bath on holiday, but I couldn't swim...
Prior to the experience on November 28, 2007, I had been at work at a Sears Call Center...
I was over at my cousin's house for a pool party; I remember everything that happened so vividly...
It was on Monday, September 3rd, I went to work as usual and felt as if I was coming down with tonsillitis, so I went to the pharmacy and bought over the counter pain killers...
I was going to work on my motorcycle, when I saw a car in front of me, at an intersection...
When I was twenty-five, I had a second occurrence of parotid mixed tumors...
I had a tonsil infection with a fever of 42 Celsius and I was in a coma...
During the night of May 15 to May 16, 2004 at a Paris Hospital intensive care unit, where I was in a coma after a first surgical operation undergone on May 4th (aorta/ descending distal superior mesenteric artery - higher mesenteric - superior mesenteric ar...
I felt like having been thrown into space with a perfect vision of moving away from the earth and entering into a very bright light...
I was spending a weekend at the beach in Sète (near Spain on the Med), and I was in a restaurant with my husband, my son and my mother...
