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I was in bad pain, at ten on their scales...
I had had a difficult birth of our first daughter on September 23, 1970...
We were on a four day vacation in cabins in a forest area in central Mexico; we went on several motorcycles to ride around a lake...
Writing this down is both exhilarating and difficult...
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On last 21st of July, I gave birth, having a C'sarean under epidural...
When I had this experience, I knew nothing about NDEs totally ignorant...
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...
I suffered a massive heart attack on March 14, 2005, at about 5pm in the evening...
Curt A NDE-like Home Classification NDE-like 629 Curt A NDE-like 20850 Experience Description I was working for a manufacturing company in Iowa...
Eve H NDE Home Classification NDE 640 Eve H NDE 20866 Experience Description I was in a car accident in 2001...
During my time before surgery, two or three minutes, a medical student from the same college were I studied computer programming was in the room...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
