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I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
I had open heart surgery, and even though I had died on the table, and even though things were just not feeling right to me, I was sent home...
It was the end of my pregnancy which had been problem free but, after the last gynecological appointment, I started to bleed...
In those years we lived in a house with an outdoor patio...
NDE at 6 years old: (Thanks to Barb Schmidt and Meera Jacka, Australia, for the Translation) I had to undergo a tonsillectomy...
It was either February or March of 1993...
For weeks I had been feeling painful tugging and cramping in my lower left abdomen...
I had sudden severe chest pain while sitting on a table next to my father...
I had a serious liver disease and I was taken to the hospital by my sister...
I went to bed after going to watch my husband play football, and when I got into bed, I felt a severe pain in my head...
Douglas H NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2837 Douglas H NDEs 6014 Experience Description The first time, I fell three stories and had some serious head injuries...
Before the experience I was vomiting and sweating, and then I passed out...
