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From lying down on the couch to take a nap, I woke up and couldn't move...
It was about 2:30 in the morning...
I was clinically dead for approximately 2 minutes according to first responders & my medical records...
I became short of breath on June 10th, two days prior to the event with a heart rate of ~144 and oxygen sats around 85%...
In adolescence, at the age of 14, I developed a grave anxiety disorder that in ten years left me disabled...
When I was 4 years old, I fell sick with peritonitis and my mother took me to the hospital...
After drinking about 2...
I was sitting with my friend Charles R on the front porch of the apartment building where we both lived on Bay State Road in the Kenmore Square section of Boston...
The most important thing to note is the night this happened, I was out with friends and surrounded in every direction...
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In outer respects, the story that follows is more of a religious conversion experience or OBE, than an NDE...
It was June 1977...
It was the year 1992, that I turned 40...
