Some Interesting Stories About Me

Who doesn't like reading about some interesting stories? :)

The Jar of Acid
I remember this one very clearly. I think I must have been about 5 or 6 at the time, and I was wandering around my dad's shop (he owned an electronics manufacturing company for many, many years). I stopped at one table where there were two large jars filled with clear liquid. For whatever reason I dipped my hand into one of the jars. Later on I found out I had chosen the jar full of WATER. The other jar was full of acid that would have burned me in a second!

The Train
One day I was driving to school and stopped at a red light. As I was waiting the train signals starting flashing for an oncomming train approaching. I looked to my right and saw the train, and as I looked at it all of the sudden I felt this sickening feeling that something bad was going to happen on that train. I actually heard screeching metal and people screaming. Shuddering, I went about my day. The very next day I had learned the alarming news that a man had died THAT SAME DAY at that VERY SAME INTERSECTION by a train crashing into his car!

The Scary Scuba Diving Incident
One fine morning I went on a scuba diving trip with my sister Kristi in Catalina. It had been awhile since I had done scuba, and I had lost a bunch of weight recently, but of course I didn't think about those things and packed my weight belt as I had BEFORE LOSING WEIGHT. On our first dive, I completely sunk like a stone! Luckily I was able to inflate some air into my BC vest (bouyance compensator) so I could compensate for the weight. On our next dive, I took out some of my weights from my weight belt, but I ended up taking out too much, because I was literally struggling to stay down in the water. I actually had to hold a large boulder rock (about a foot long) to stay down lol.. Well, you can only hold a rock for so long and it must have slipped out of my hands or something, but I lost my grip and up I flew! From 30 feet to 0 in literally a few seconds. For those of you that don't know, this is EXTREMELY dangerous! Going too fast like that from being underwater can put nitrogen bubbles into your blood aka "the bends" and paralize you or cause death if you don't get treated right away. And treatment - the hyperbaric chamber - is NOT cheap, and not many people have them readily available! Well luckily as I was bobbing at the top I could still feel my arms and legs.. no tingling.. just felt shaky and tired and SCARED out of my mind. Needless to say I still love scuba, but omg I am so much more careful now. You HAVE to be with diving!

The Near Death Experience
This has been the scariest moment of my entire life. In the summer of 1999, I was experimenting with drugs (I was 19 at the time). Uneducated and totally oblivious to any danger, I decided to snort some cocaine with my friend Lee. I did 3 lines. Then later (about an hour or so), he hands me a joint. I take a few LARGE hits. All of the sudden I felt like my breathing was getting extremely shallow and I was going to die. I know with pot you get hallucinations and paranoia, but NOT LIKE THIS. Lee for some reason or another was getting mad at me complaining about my chest hurting and refused to take me to the hospital. I kept pleading with him to take me. He said I was fine and ended up driving me home. I was dropped off at my house and I crawled upstairs to my room. I remember looking at my face in the mirror before I laid down in my bed - it was ashen and gray. I laid down and I remembered not being able to breathe - like my breathing had stopped completely. And that's when I saw God.

God came before me as a white figure, with gold stars circling around his waist. He was telling me it was my time to go. I said NO I don't want to! And then I found myself in a tunnel. At the end of this tunnel were peaceful blue skies and puffy clouds. It felt warm and so inviting.. and I knew if I went there all my pain and suffereing would go away instantly. But I kept fighting to stay back.. to stay away from the tunnel. I kept pleading for my life. Somewhere as I was pleading I was given glipses of my life. But it was strange because it wasn't "my life flashing before my eyes" but future events. And they did flash in front of me. THey started out as yellow/black images, to full color, to fade away into nothing. I saw myself getting married, having 2 kids running around in the grass, me being in front of a bunch of lights, a baseball player (my son maybe?) and 2 old people smiling and waving (me?). THEN everything faded to black and I saw a blonde haired boy sitting on a fence. He looked like nobody I had ever seen before in my life, but he smiled at me. I asked him if he was my guardian angel and he just smiled and told me everything was going to be ok. Then he faded away and I was in the tunnel again! I kept begging god to let me live please please please and suddenly I felt a tremendous pressure, like I was being pushed, and the tunnel started going backwards and it was then that I was able to open my eyes and take a breath. I had literally stopped breathing. I have no idea how long I was unconscious for or what, but my mom did take me to the hospital that night. Fearful of going to jail, I didn't tell anybody about the cocaine, so they didn't do any blood checks. But later when I told my story to the doctor, he believed I had smoked pot laced with LSD. The fact that I mixed was why I just completely shut down. In my body that night was alcohol, lithium (misdiagnosis of bipolar), creatine, epehdra (when it was legal), cocaine, pot, and possibly LSD.

Lee is not my friend anymore. I also found out you cannot go to jail simply for having cocaine in your system. I had trouble going to sleep for years after this happened to me, fearful that I wouldn't wake up. I used to ask my mom to watch me go to bed to make sure I was breathing. I was so afraid I was going to die in my sleep!

This experience has brought me closer to God and has made me more spiritual of a person. I was extremely lucky I didn't die. I am here for a reason. I was saved. And that feels pretty good. :)