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What is it like to have a near death experience...
I was admitted to hospital with a blood disease called sepsis...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
I was standing out in the yard wrapped in a bed sheet...
On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
In March 1993 I was living in Del Rio, Texas with my husband (we have since divorced)...
Before my experience I was more less an atheist...
When it happened, I was watching television...
I suffered from treatment-resistant depression and had followed a strict regimen of psychiatric care and numerous medications for two years...
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While comatose I experienced horrific nightmares involving all the stories I had heard from my clients but involving those I loved...
I had been gradually becoming short of breath over a couple months...
