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I was 34 weeks pregnant with my second child...
At the time of the incident, I was racing in the NASCAR weekly racing series at the Stockton 99 Speedway, in Stockton California...
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My teenage daughter told me that she wanted to be baptized and become a Christian...
Lower back surgery was sceduled for the morning of February 23, 2015...
I saw the movie 'Mary Poppins' and thought how much I hated myself and my life...
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On 12/04/2020, I underwent surgery to repair an injury to the tendons of my rotator cuff...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
My near-death experience happened 30 years ago, but I still can remember it as if it happened only yesterday...
My mother died and left her body during or shortly after WWII, which was before I was born...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
A 500 lb...
It should be noted that I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea many years after this experience since the experience...
