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I remember a lot of pain...
Cardiac catheter error resulted in bypass graft spiral dissection and iatrogenic heart attack followed by urinary tract infection related to non-sterile Foley placement later leading to urosepsis, septic shock, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, , renal f...
I gave birth to a baby girl exactly eleven months before the miscarriage...
I had been in intensive care following surgery...
Forty years ago I experienced something no one could explain...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
Lourdes L NDE Home Classification NDE 3424 Lourdes L NDE 6785 Experience Description For eight years I had put up with my husband's infidelity (we are now divorced)...
Paolo D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3425 Paolo D Probable NDE 5452 Experience Description As a consequence of a car accident, I suffered brain trauma and I have been in coma for some days...
On the 12th of June, I got an operation...
In August of 1989, I was bicycling home from a volunteer position around 10 p...
On the morning of June 5, 2000, I had a medical procedure (cystoscopy) done in an outpatient clinic at the hospital where I worked...
I grew up in an extremely abusive household and time away from responsibility was rare...
