The medication they gave her actually stopped her heart in an attempt to get the beat pattern back to normal. She says she felt a crushing weight, but didn't realize that she was technically dead for a few seconds until the doctors told her afterwards. But it's so scary. What seemed like a minor problem during a walk on the beach almost took her life. I'm taking today as a lesson.
Life is, indeed, short.
What happens to us in the brief time we're here is up to us. I can spend my time annoyed about lost pieces of paper, or I can do something incredible. I haven't actually spoken to my friend from San Francisco for about a year. The last time we spoke was after he discovered I had moved back to the Boston area. So I was a little nervous about this call.