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Joshua

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When I was younger, my parents were both working full-time jobs. My father was stationed at Fort Bliss and my mother worked various defense or education-related jobs. Thus, I was placed into a summer youth program. I was one of the younger, if not the youngest child, in the program. One summer day, they took … Read more

Denise

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Following a pharyngitis that wasn’t healing, I woke up with a swollen face. My eye was almost completely closed. I was urgently operated on because I was diagnosed with septicemia, abscesses in my lungs, and I had a clot in the left jugular vein that had a high chance of causing several strokes. My last … Read more

Frank

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I remember feeling like I was going to pass out from being light-headed. I did pass out and hit the floor. I can remember a brief moment of darkness. Then I was in a room…but not really a room. It was just a big open space with a pure white background and glow. I was … Read more

Jeff D.

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I had been shot eight times, including one bullet which impacted my left carotid artery. While being attended to by my two neighbors, both with medical backgrounds, I began to go into shock. Soon, I started experiencing a calmness that was totally out of the norm; especially considering that I had just physically assaulted my … Read more

Marcel

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The introduction: September 2012 — It was a normal average day and I was sitting on a chair having a cup of coffee. Suddenly I felt intense pain in my chest as if a knife was stuck into me. Finally, I decided to call the doctor just to be sure it was nothing serious which … Read more