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I went to my dentist to have two teeth extracted...
After dinner on a Sunday evening, I went upstairs to change clothes and my wife was with me...
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Hazel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2434 Hazel L NDE 4802 Experience Description I was scheduled for a routine dilatation and curettage procedure and laparoscopy in October of 1990...
James C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2441 James C Probable NDE 4809 Experience Description The accident happened so fast that it took a while for me to realize what had happened...
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I was taken to the hospital after accidental mixing of alcohol with tablets...
Walter W FDE Home Classification FDE 2450 Walter W FDE 4834 Experience Description After spending Christmas with my folks in Ohio, I set out at 5:00 am in my car to return to my apartment in Massachusetts...
I woke up early on August 19, 2020...
In my mid-forties, my pancreas began to malfunction due to a birth defect later discovered during surgery...
Trevor J NDE Home Classification NDE 2479 Trevor J NDE 22363 Experience Description Improvised explosive device bomb blast...
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Ran a mini-marathon on a very hot (a hundred degrees plus) day...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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I was seventeen years old and already a mother of one child who was a year old...
