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\nComment by Susan on 22 Oct 2009 at 10:07 am<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n
Bunch of questions about dying. Have you ever died and came back? Did any doctor think you should be dead? Have you ever been in an altered state if presumed dead? Were you ever worried you could be buried alive? Do you fear death?<\/span><\/p>\n
Courious about multiples and alters and the death of alters. Was your integration a death to you?<\/span><\/p>\n
Your book is intense and realistic. I enjoyed the challenge it brought to me. I hate reading but finished your book in three days. I am interested in more and started reading your blog.<\/span><\/p>\n
Susan<\/span><\/p>\n
Alabama<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Susan,<\/span><\/p>\n
Interesting questions! \u00a0Yes, I suffered a cardiac arrest at age eleven, after a bout with double pneumonia, I recall my hospitalization and coming back. During my childhood, my pediatrician often mentioned that it was a miracle that I was alive.\u00a0My doctors\u00a0comment was based on the fact that I had suffered from many medical problems and numerous hospitalizations, beating the odds many times.<\/span><\/p>\n
Most of the time no one could explain or diagnose\u00a0my\u00a0sudden illnesses, leading me to believe that there was alter influence. Once my doctor hospitalized me for a high fever, only for my fever to disappear as quickly as it arrived. \u00a0Another time I couldn’t walk, I was paralyzed,\u00a0and then suddenly I was able to walk without aid. \u00a0Once I wasn’t able to hear, I was assumed to be deaf, and started to hear just before entering the operating room. There was always a mystery surrounding my childhood illnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n
I do not fear death and never feared being buried alive. While in an altered state I never stopped breathing; I may have appeared as if I had fainted, nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n
My integration was not\u00a0the death of my alters. Integration was a merger of each alter within me to become one.\u00a0The only difference was that each alter was no longer able to function as an individual part in the capacity they once had. <\/span>I never lost my alters; they are a part of me. <\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you for your compliments, your interest in learning more, and for finding my story challenging.<\/span><\/p>\n
Karen<\/span><\/p>\n
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