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I was in the hospital for outpatient surgery on my toe...
My mother, brother and I were staying in a guest house next to the hospital where they were treating me, and every day I'd go over there and would have my blood taken and my condition monitored...
Niel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2711 Niel L NDE 5191 Experience Description When I was four, I went to the swimming pool alone to get some coins I had seen at the bottom...
Marie C NDE Home Classification NDE 2714 Marie C NDE 5117 Experience Description I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
This is my grandmother's story, passed down to my mother, and then to me...
At the beginning, I was choking...
Charles N NDE Home Classification NDE 2731 Charles N NDE 5223 Experience Description My Visit to HeavenI had a back surgery in which the anesthesiologist gave me too much anesthesia and I died on the operating table...
I was hit by a car and thrown sixty meters from point of impact...
I was four years old and suffering from a progressively worsening life-threatening pneumonia...
Linda D NDE Home Classification NDE 2738 Linda D NDE 5238 Experience Description I was walking with a friend after school...
Edward S NDE Home Classification NDE 2739 Edward S NDE 5239 Experience Description I knew I was in a great deal of trouble, and that something had to be done...
Around 4:00 p...
