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In December 1974, I was 18 months old...
I knew several days ahead of time that I was dying...
Excerpt from my personal essay on the subject published on openeyes1031...
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At that time, I had an inflamed liver because my body did not process red meat well...
I arrived late in the evening at the hospital...
After a day of passing blood, I went to the hospital emergency department...
I was diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) 7 days before the experience...
I contracted three strains of the mosquito-borne disease (dengue fever) while was working in Mexico...
I went into cardiac arrest...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
I was being treated for diabetes in another country and travel once a month for treatments...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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