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It was all by strange chance that in August 2011 I ended up travelling to Beirut for a breast augmentation surgery, having been born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, with access to lots of plastic surgeons within my own city...
Before the surgery, I was taken to the operating room where my gown was removed and my arms were stretched out as the IVs were inserted...
Dahlia Y NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2939 Dahlia Y NDEs 6175 Experience Description My sister and I got in to a fight because she didn't want me to go with her to her friend's house...
I went into a tunnel and was met by dead friends and relatives...
I was told I looked as if I was having a seizure and as if I was really about to die...
This experience happened to me more than 60 years ago...
Prior to the experience, I was under a lot of stress but I was not physically ill...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
Vivian M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3030 Vivian M Probable NDE 6272 Experience Description At age 17, I took some kind of hallucinogen...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
