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One of the first things that I experienced was at the accident scene...
I had already lost a lot of blood when I was on my way to the hospital...
Cynthia R NDE Home Classification NDE 1109 Cynthia R NDE 3097 Experience Description At first I heard what seemed to be a train going through my head - a brief darkness and I climbed up Golden stairs...
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Fifteen minutes after taking a new diabetic injection, I was driving to work at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, forty miles away...
The pain intensified from mild to severe in less than an hour...
I had had two dreams prior to this event where my mother and my friends were packing a suitcase and telling me I had to go to the hospital or I would die...
I was driving along highway 290 going about seventy mph, when I saw a quick flash of a pickup truck in front of my car...
I was accosted, stabbed repeatedly and shot twice in the spine...
Going into the operating room I had an unusual amount of peace...
I was laying in my bed and I had a catheter, a feeding tube, a drainage tube, oxygen, and talking with my roommate...
I saw the hospital room that I was in (emergency room department)...
