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I was close, but not unusually so, to my mother's parents...
It is only recently that I have recalled this event and I do not know why...
Poppy Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3198 Poppy Probable NDE 6500 Experience Description While I was undergoing neurosurgery, I experienced a period of darkness and then I saw grey and pink lights...
Suddenly, I was in a tunnel that was illuminated by a strong blue light...
Julia O NDE Home Classification NDE 3218 Julia O NDE 6526 Experience Description I was in childbirth with my second child, a girl as it turned out...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
In March 1993 I was living in Del Rio, Texas with my husband (we have since divorced)...
David G ADC Home Classification ADC 3233 David G ADC 6559 Experience Description The morning of her death (she was killed overnight), I took the call at home and had to track down my wife as she had already left for work...
When it happened, I was watching television...
I suffered from treatment-resistant depression and had followed a strict regimen of psychiatric care and numerous medications for two years...
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I had been gradually becoming short of breath over a couple months...
