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I had moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1972 from the Chicago area...
I did write a poem several months following the experience so I would not forget...
My NDE occurred in the mid-fifties in a maternity hospital in California during the delivery of my third child...
I was supposed to be under sedation for heart surgery, I was, according to the team working on my physical body...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I was walking in the park with a friend on a nice cool breezy summer night...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military...
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I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
While being transported to Harborview Hospital via helicopter, I found myself floating above my body and looking down at it through the air-grill that lined the radius at the roof line of the interior of the helicopter...
I was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes all morning...
