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I was accosted, stabbed repeatedly and shot twice in the spine...
Some time after I went 'under' for the surgery, 'I' experienced a focused perception of being both just above and out of my body...
It was Wednesday morning and I was on my way to work...
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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)...
I was shown my newborn baby boy - felt love for him - then I blacked out...
It was a Saturday during the day and I was at school...
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer): Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975...
In 1973, at the age of twenty, I was in a serious automobile accident...
As my body was separating itself from my spirit, I could actually feel the warmth of my surrounding as I looked down on the emergency medical technicians trying to reawaken me...
I was being wheeled down the hallway to my room after a lengthy registration period by a somewhat indifferent Catholic sister/nurse...
