Mark M NDE
One of my earliest memories 'Drowning' (Washington): When I was about five years of age, my oldest sister Cherline took my younger sister Lori and I to a local swimming hole in Pasco, Washington...
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One of my earliest memories 'Drowning' (Washington): When I was about five years of age, my oldest sister Cherline took my younger sister Lori and I to a local swimming hole in Pasco, Washington...
I was told (after the fact) that I was given a cocktail of heavy duty drugs...
I was at the neighbor's house with my sister in the backyard...
As a family we had gone for a swim in the pool...
At age seven, while swimming (I had not really learned yet) in a motel swimming pool, I found I could not get my head above water...
I found myself outside my body...
I left my body completely...
I was playing by a slide area and was struck in the head with a rock...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...