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The date was Saturday June 5th, 2021...
Following a difficult pregnancy during which I suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, was admitted to the hospital 3 times before I was 10 weeks pregnant...
I was anesthetized for a simple operation...
January 22, 2022 I went into Alexian Brothers hospital in elk Grove Village Illinois for a posterior L5 fusion because the L5 was collapsed onto the SI joint with six other failed surgeries...
The panic of being suffocated was too much, so I exploded into darkness...
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It happened on June 23, 2021, and my life completely changed in 48 hours...
I was fourteen years of age...
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From lying down on the couch to take a nap, I woke up and couldn't move...
The first NDE I had was in 1959...
I became short of breath on June 10th, two days prior to the event with a heart rate of ~144 and oxygen sats around 85%...
After drinking about 2...
In July of 2019 I was in a car accident...
