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As a teacher, I was supervising students coming out two doors of the cafeteria for recess...
I had been in the hospital with medications in an IV for my heart failure and got a horrible leg cramp in my right leg which was the most painful I had ever experienced and asked to stand up...
In the summer of '68, I and two of my brothers plus a friend walked into an abandoned building site...
I was deep sea diving with my brother James, 17 years old, and the diving teacher...
I remember having a tightness in my chest and feeling weak...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
I was a very serious athlete all of my life and knew my body very intimately...
It was early in the morning at the hospital (7:30 AM...
After a brief visit in a physician's office he determined I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and was rushed the emergency room...
Jenny C NDE Home Classification NDEs 3094 Jenny C NDE 6345 Experience Description FIRST TIME: I was about five when my first NDE happened...
Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) Home Classification Secondhand NDE 3097 Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) 6350 Experience Description My dad, Sherman G, had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and had his right kidney removed...
I passed out at home Friday night, the ambulance came and took me to the hospital around 11 pm...
