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I have asthma, or more like damaged lungs due to too much jet exhaust, jet fuel (working in aircraft fuel tanks) and a bout of pneumonia at least once a year that requires hospitalization, and lots of scar tissue in my lungs...
I was playing a game of basketball at school, when the ball left the court...
I had recently lost my best friend to suicide and felt so incredibly guilty for having discussions with him about suicide prior to his death regarding how I was planning to kill myself, I felt his death was my fault...
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I was slowly aware of a light ahead of me...
I was a stewardess at the time...
I remember looking both ways then starting to cross...
David J NDE Home Classification NDE 1947 David J NDE 4050 Experience Description I found myself in a dark void...
It was three months into being diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma...
I remember a severe tightness/pain in my chest, and gasping for air with the feeling I wasn't getting air...
It started, I was, I want to say 'floating', but it felt more like I was being pulled backwards through space I was not scared I felt very peaceful...
In consciousness I remember the surgeon telling me that I had to have surgery...
The most vivid part of the experience was at one point I could see my mother holding me in her arms...
