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Hello dear people of NDERF...
I was at the hospital having a sodium blocker test to see what was wrong with my heart...
I was on my way home from work...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
I want to preface my experience by telling you about two earlier NDEs I had as a child, and to explain the events of my childhood that led up to my main NDE story...
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I experienced something more real than Earth, Heaven or Hell, and something beyond any religion...
I was having open-heart surgery...
At the time of my NDE, I was around four months pregnant with my first child...
It should be noted that I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea many years after this experience since the experience...
At first, I remember people in panic surrounding me...
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NDE: I was 7 years old, and lived in a farm town in the interior of the Dominican Republic Somehow, I contracted and an invasive and aggressive Streptococcus infection that invaded my body...
I woke up from surgery in the intensive care unit (ICU), looked at my husband and squeaked out, 'I never dreamed before while under surgery...
