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I was extremely sick...
I looked down and saw my own body on the operating table...
This happened in 1974...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
I was around 5 years old playing in a field with my step brother...
I realized that I was no more than an eye or something with vision, which was me, and I was on top of the lights in the surgery room...
I was undergoing surgery during a termination of pregnancy...
I saw from above that the surgeon was operating on me...
At 11 a...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
I was being treated for diabetes in another country and travel once a month for treatments...
A few days post-operative I was laying in the intensive care unit and I felt a fluttering, alarms on the monitor sounded and hospital staff came running in and place a board under me...
