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I woke up above my body, and I was still having electrical thoughts...
Adeline N NDE Home Classification NDE 2251 Adeline N NDE 4481 Experience Description When I came to after tonsil surgery, I felt sick and vomited blood...
It was the fourth day following the initial infarction and, as I understand it after the event, the plan was to do a balloon angioplasty the following day...
My husband and children went to church but I stayed home to rest since I wasn't feeling very well...
The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
Jean E NDE Home Classification NDE 2256 Jean E NDE 4492 Experience Description I was bleeding profusely, and the time went very slowly...
In March 1984, I was six months pregnant, and awoke with severe pain in my leg...
First, a bit of background, I had left Quebec on April 30, 1983 to go learn English in Alberta...
Josefina M Mother NDE Home Classification Secondhand NDE 2259 Josefina M Mother NDE 4658 Experience Description This was my mother's experience, which from that time onwards she told us about as something quite natural, and she remembers it clearly even now...
Norbeto G NDE Home Classification NDE 2261 Norbeto G NDE 4664 Experience Description In January 1985, travelling from the city of Bucaramanga, towards Bogotá, as a passenger in an automobile driven by a friend, we crashed into an articulated lorry which was...
I was suffering with a contagious disease, scarlet fever; I was separated from my siblings in a bedroom apart from them...
Nettie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2265 Nettie P NDE 4503 Experience Description I had a terrible childbirth that should have been a cesarean section, but when the doctor arrived and realized it was too late, and both the baby and I were already in danger...
