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As a boy of about 13, I was standing on a bridge that was also a dam...
I was struck by two vehicles at high speed and became unconscious almost immediately...
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While suffering with a bad case of the flu, I was lying on the couch when suddenly everything went black...
I was a Deputy Sheriff responding to an active shooter...
I had lymph node cancer...
It was the end of the day on my fourteenth birthday...
Because of the prolonged care of my former partner, I was on the edge of exhaustion...
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I had been married for only a year and was about 5-1/2 months pregnant with my first child...
Months prior to my experience, I had gone through an abortion...
Peter U Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 4502 Peter U Probable NDE 8538 Experience Description I felt like I had separated from my body and was looking down upon myself and the surgical staff...
After having gone through about ten prior operations for debridement of my left foot with skin grafts, I was used to the procedures...
The accident itself was portrayed in that old TV show Rescue 911...
