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I was seventeen years old and a senior in high school...
I was traveling down a city street in a compact rent-a-car at about 40 mph when my car blew a tire and the vehicle I was in spun out and ended up on the other side of the road facing the wrong direction...
On 4/9/1979, I was 19 years old...
I do not know how long the experience lasted...
After being hit by a jeep, thrown couple of feet away from the car's location, and falling on the concrete ground, I tried to get up as quickly but I couldn't as if I was fully paralyzed...
I heard a melody and I saw heavenly people floating in the air...
I was with my little brother and we were looking over an embankment...
I will never forget that day...
That day, Wednesday the 14th, they did a corrective rhinoplasty on my nose and by itself the surgery and recovery went without incident...
