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This experience happened in the middle of the night...
At the time my experience happened, I had been diagnosed with heart trouble...
I was admitted to the hospital with bilateral pneumonia and acute kidney failure...
The following is my best recollection of events that occurred while I was undergoing a surgical procedure on December 27, 2017...
Labor Day weekend in 1995, I had been depressed for multiple reasons and suffered from depression and anxiety...
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I had used the same massage therapist for over ten years, so was very comfortable with her...
First of all, I had an OBE when I was 19 and almost drowned in the Gulf of Mexico...
After separating from my husband and experiencing a reoccurrence of my painful, undiagnosed illness, I fell into a deep depression...
It was like a dream where I could not feel anything...
I had recently given birth to my third child approximately two months before my experience...
I was 8 or 9 years old at the time...
My four-month old NDE started as a man, whom I will refer to as ‘Tracey,’ was carrying me downstairs into the basement of my grandma’s house...
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