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I have not really had a near-death experience...
I was praying because I was terrified and confused...
I come from a Family of 19 Children ,We grew up on a Dairy Farm in Green leaf Wisconsin...
I was dead for 8 minutes...
At the time of the accident I was depressed and an alcoholic...
THE COMFORTER I came home from work last July and found my son in bed, he had overdosed...
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One night during a terrible argument between my parents and older brother, I was in bed trying to go to sleep, but was extremely upset at the atmosphere in our home...
I was on the stretcher going down the hallway of the hospital...
I had been out drinking with my friends and when I got home there was a lot of my family there...
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Driving down the road, I was going fast through a curve...
My wife is hard of hearing and does not speak English very well...
This happened to me in 1978...
