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I remember a lot of pain...
Cardiac catheter error resulted in bypass graft spiral dissection and iatrogenic heart attack followed by urinary tract infection related to non-sterile Foley placement later leading to urosepsis, septic shock, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, , renal f...
I began to feel sleepy with the loss of blood...
I could hear the voices of the doctors and then they just faded into a lower volume and they were muffled...
Forty years ago I experienced something no one could explain...
Lelei Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3410 Lelei Probable NDE 6835 Experience Description I went through a tunnel...
It was around 7am...
There were voices during a life-threatening event...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
Paolo D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3425 Paolo D Probable NDE 5452 Experience Description As a consequence of a car accident, I suffered brain trauma and I have been in coma for some days...
In August of 1989, I was bicycling home from a volunteer position around 10 p...
It happened while they were operating on me...
