I spent my early working life as a writer and reporter for various newspapers and for United Press International. I later became a lawyer and spent five years practicing mostly criminal defense law before I was disabled by the first of nine heart attacks. In 2005 I underwent a heart transplant which went terribly wrong in ways no one could even imagine. I was in a coma for two months and on life support. When I came out of the coma I was totally paralyzed -- coul more...