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I just thought he's got the gun reaching out and pointing at me.

I'm on the floor, and he's like making up his mind, whether to shoot me or where to shoot me.

Real people.

From the poisoning, I am so sick.

They put me on the gurney.

I pass out.

My heart stopped four times.

Who faced death?

My worst fear was I knew I was bleeding.

And I looked down and it was a gray shark bigger than I was.

And lived to tell how.

I had the phone in my hand, and I called the sheriff's office.

And for all intensive purposes, I gave a dying declaration.

This is I survived.

It's July 2006 in Seattle, Washington.

Cheryl is the marketing manager for the Jewish Federation of Seattle.

I was sitting in my office, you know, answering the last few emails of the day,

kind of noticing the clock and what time it was, and a little anxious for Kelsey to show up.

Kelsey is Cheryl's niece. The receptionist that day was Layla.

I was hoping to actually slip out of the office early so that I could maybe get out and go on a little hike or something like that.

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