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A stroke that should have killed me suddenly. While being in the worst shape of my life, on the ground with severe vertigo, projectile vomiting, and in the worst physical pain I'd ever been in, the horror really started when I closed my eyes to die and some how woke up...

I had no idea about life saving medicine or what happens when you're close to death and it's their job to save your life on a different kind of time where they tell you what is going to be done to you... It's really a treat being told that you're getting a spinal tap in the same 5 minute window that you get the spinal tap...

This sounds like BS but is completely true. My mother once locked me in the attic for several months while my father was out of town. I was around 15 years old. There was a bedroom and bathroom, but no food. I survived on an unusually large container of Chichis Hot Salsa that my dad had gotten me for my birthday (it was my favorite snack) and a bottle of cranberry juice. I refilled the juice bottle with water from the sink. I went from ~160 lbs to under 100bs. Near the end I began experiencing seizures.

I will never forget the first meal I had when my dad got back into town. It was a sandwich from a pizza place, and I can still taste it clearly. It was heavenly.

I was on a church work camp trip at age 14 and while changing, one of the adults was filming me with a camera and the other kids in the room were laughing. I even went behind a door to cover myself and the pervert peeked the camera around it.

That was pretty horrific.

When I was 7 my moms boyfriend was beating her to a pulp. I was sure he was going to kill her this time.

I wholeheartedly believed I could overpower him and save her so I grabbed a toy hockey stick and ran over. All it took was one measly swing from a scrany, malnourished kid and all his attention on me. That's all I got in before I realized how wrong I was, followed by watching my mom run out the back door. I knew in my heart she wasn't leaving to get help and I was right.

I've gone through a lot before and after that but I've never been more horrified than that very moment. I remember the horror leave me shortly after when I was certain I wouldn't see tomorrow.