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A patient of mine, elderly, (about mid-seventies), had gallstone-induced pancreatitis...
I had stopped breathing during sleep because I had blisters on my throat the air stream constricted...
It was around 1:30 a...
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I was lying down at a dentist office when he gave me a gauze to put me to sleep before surgery...
Transfusion in the middle of a fourteen hour major kidney surgery that did not work...
I woke up in a hospital bed with a doctor sitting next to me holding my hand...
When I was ten, my family used to spend our summers up at Lake Phips...
I was four years old and had the flu...
My experience occurred during anesthesia (narcosis) that I received after the birth of my son...
I found myself outside my body...
I had a very high temperature as a result of having Scarlet Fever...
I was broadsided while driving my car at approximately fifty-five mph...
