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On 12/04/2020, I underwent surgery to repair an injury to the tendons of my rotator cuff...
I was at the hospital having a sodium blocker test to see what was wrong with my heart...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
I do not remember getting hit or two weeks before the experience...
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I had been in great emotional distress for a few days due to losing my family in a breakup and homelessness, so I got to the point of killing myself and choose to do so via pain med overdose...
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While in the hospital for sepsis, I unknowingly began to experience fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia...
I am a young mother of three who had 20 minutes of Near- Death and Out-of-body experience in 2019, at age 34...
I was tail ended in a car accident, I seemed to be ok but one year later the medics told me I needed to undergo spinal surgery, if I did not go ahead there was strong chance that I would lose the ability to walk...
August 2003, I’m 23 years old...
In October of 2020 I caught Covid...
I was 4 years old and staying at my babysitter's house...
