The underground train crashed. It was dark inside the earthly tunnel. The twisted metal compressed some human bodies and decapitated others. Huge rats were attracted by so many mutilated bodies, blood and dirt. The rescuers moved slowly, having no choice but to step on bodies of dead people, knowing they could do nothing for them. … Read more
I had undergone stabilization surgery for my unusually severe scoliosis and for a spinal fusion. I spent 13 hours in the operating room and I was told that I had been admitted to my own room for about 3 hours. The nurses were monitoring me as I woke from the anesthesia. After about 10 minutes, … Read more
I had gone to Josephine Falls with my wife and daughter for a swim. It was a place we often visited. One of the attractions of this place is a natural waterslide that is smooth rock for some 10 meter depending on water levels. This allows a swimmer to slide down and splash into the … Read more
I developed acute pain in my abdomen that was diagnosed as appendicitis. I took some analgesics and antibiotics. Then I consulted a surgeon in a private hospital and he concurred with my diagnosis. As it was an inflammatory type of diagnosis, he suggested removing the appendix without any delay. My mother was with me the … Read more
Bam! ‘That had to be a plane,’ I thought to myself. Nothing else could possibly be moving that fast. The force of the impact had snapped the drivers seat off and I felt the car being catapulted forward. That in itself was alarming. I had been traveling north on I-75 just north of Atlanta, GA … Read more
I was in the hospital room standing in my gown. Shortly after I delivered, my mother was standing several feet away and my boyfriend, at the time, was next to me. I cannot recall the reason I was standing. It may have been because I had to go to the bathroom. I remember my mother … Read more
I got married on the 15th of January 1970. This happened on the 18th of January 1970 at 10:20 am. I was trying to fix a control in an electrical cabinet. I was moving a measuring device, while watching an ampere meter measuring between two phases, of which one was 380 volts. Following a wrong … Read more
It has been 15 years since my experience, obviously the emotions and extreme details have faded a bit, but the experience was very short and “to the point”: I awoke (very emotionally charged, sad, but comforted) from dreaming of a “white picket fence”, then quickly switching to being in my grandparents’ home..I looked over and … Read more
My ex-husband died unexpectedly from brain cancer in 1992. I carried a lot of guilt for the way I had treated him during our short marriage and was deeply disturbed that time had run out before I could verbalize to him the way I felt. Two months after his death I traveled to Saudi Arabia … Read more