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I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
Rue A NDE Home Classification NDE 1372 Rue A NDE 311 Experience Description I was at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to have magnetic resonance imaging done...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I was walking in the park with a friend on a nice cool breezy summer night...
This is a story that my deceased stepfather, Lee M...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military...
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I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
While being transported to Harborview Hospital via helicopter, I found myself floating above my body and looking down at it through the air-grill that lined the radius at the roof line of the interior of the helicopter...
I was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes all morning...
In 1992 I had lung surgery...
