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I was living in Iowa...
I suddenly became ill one evening and began to hemorrhage, and went to the Emergency Room at my local hospital...
I was diagnosed terminal and in and out of consciousness for several weeks...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
I hit my head on a bar and fell backwards...
I was in hospital in a seven bed ward...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
I had been in labor for three days...
Early in the morning after having had my right kidney removed the previous day, I was talking to my mother...
Tikvah F NDE Home Classification NDE 3722 Tikvah F NDE 7315 Experience Description I awoke that day feeling like there was a danger, like I had to leave my house...
Ken D NDE Home Classification NDE 3723 Ken D NDE 7316 Experience Description It was a Friday night in 1974 around 7:30...
I was sleeping on the bed with my brother's children aged 9 and 11 yrs old...
