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I had surgery a week before the experience...
That morning I arrived at the hospital and had a C section to deliver my son...
Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
I was suffering from an attack of kidney stones for the third time that week, and a new doctor came in and said, 'I'm going to give you the maximum pain reliever that you can take, for your weight: 250 mg of a mixture of morphine and Demerol...
That morning my mom woke me up and told me to get ready to go to school and I told her I didn't wanted to go...
I was taken to hospital, I had a bad cold...
A special thanks to Elaine for transcribing this NDE as Ray told it to her...
Upon my return home after attending college at about midnight, my phone rang...
Karen NDE Home Classification NDE 2896 Karen NDE 6120 Experience Description I don't remember the day I was hospitalized, but the days before I was knew I was really sick...
I had been suffering from painful rheumatoid arthritis for many years and had to inject myself with Humira in order to live comfortably...
NDE, but predominant experience happened a few days later during meditation-like state...
I was lying in the hospital bed watching the doctors and nurses working on me exactly as if I was conscious...
