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I was standing out in the yard wrapped in a bed sheet...
On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
I had been sick and was sent to the hospital...
In March 1993 I was living in Del Rio, Texas with my husband (we have since divorced)...
Before my experience I was more less an atheist...
Polly R NDE Home Classification NDE 3231 Polly R NDE 6551 Experience Description It was 1/3/1988...
My experience was on March 20, 2012...
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When it happened, I was watching television...
I suffered from treatment-resistant depression and had followed a strict regimen of psychiatric care and numerous medications for two years...
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While comatose I experienced horrific nightmares involving all the stories I had heard from my clients but involving those I loved...
It was a Friday or Saturday night and it was a few weeks into my first semester at college as a freshman...
I was out of my body and fully conscious...
