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I was twelve years old...
On the morning of my event I had just taken a shower and was getting ready to take my mother, who had cancer at the time, for a blood transfusion...
I grew up in an extremely abusive household and time away from responsibility was rare...
Before the experience, I had been huffing gas regularly for one year...
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It happened while they were operating on me...
Avery D NDE Home Classification NDE 3443 Avery D NDE 6882 Experience Description I was electrocuted by an old 1960’s refrigerator...
Then the first thing I saw was a vision of myself dead on my bed and the landlord coming in the door with his daughter...
My mother was a very angry and afraid person...
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I was in a severe depression...
I was a child riding my bike and was hit by a car...
I remember very vividly as though it happened yesterday...
During the brain surgery that lasted 8 hours, my daughter Alice (I am her mother as Alice unfortunately is no longer with us) claims that she entered into a marvelous light that emitted warmth and a sense of peace...
