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After my first surgery I was extremely weak, tired and in terrible pain...
I had already taken my prescribed Adderall earlier in the day...
Julia O NDE Home Classification NDE 3218 Julia O NDE 6526 Experience Description I was in childbirth with my second child, a girl as it turned out...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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I was visiting New York on holiday and on the last day I had a condition called an Arrhythmia which is a life threatening irregular heartbeat, I was rushed to New York Downtown hospital where I was given a drip to try to regulate my heart rate...
I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
In March 1993 I was living in Del Rio, Texas with my husband (we have since divorced)...
Before my experience I was more less an atheist...
I was in incredible pain during delivery and things were not progressing well so at around 17 hours of labor I asked for an epidural...
David G ADC Home Classification ADC 3233 David G ADC 6559 Experience Description The morning of her death (she was killed overnight), I took the call at home and had to track down my wife as she had already left for work...
I was headed to a dentist appointment at 9:30 am...
