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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...
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...
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...
I was at the beach with some of my siblings and my stepfather...
After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that...
Alexandra S NDE Home Classification NDE 2272 Alexandra S NDE 7282/4680 Experience Description 7282 That day was during the end of October...
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Maurice B NDE Home Classification NDE 2273 Maurice B NDE 4687 Experience Description I played a football game with a loose shin pad...
A few days post-operative I was laying in the intensive care unit and I felt a fluttering, alarms on the monitor sounded and hospital staff came running in and place a board under me...
