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I had been in labor for three days...
I remember going into the operating room and then I felt myself swimming upward in something that was heavier than air but lighter than water...
The following is what I wrote down in the week following the experience: In April of 2014, I went in for surgery to remove my gallbladder...
Ken D NDE Home Classification NDE 3723 Ken D NDE 7316 Experience Description It was a Friday night in 1974 around 7:30...
It started for me awakening in a place without light...
I took a dosage of medicine that was supposed to be lethal for a minimum of four adult men...
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They had performed a Cesarean on me and had given me general anesthesia...
Sally S NDE Home Classification NDE 3804 Sally S NDE 7460 Experience Description I had undergone surgery to remove my tonsils and adenoids...
When I had my experience, I was in major surgery due to blood clots and an aneurysm...
Janice G Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3809 Janice G Probable NDE 7467 Experience Description After my discharge from the hospital, I felt tinges of pain in my abdomen, like little bee stings...
Until my 11th year, I was living with my mother and her boyfriend...
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Charles G NDE Home Classification NDE 3826 Charles G NDE 7493 Experience Description It was December 31, 1983 on New Year’s Eve...
