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I did not wake up for at least a day and maybe two or three days after surgery...
My husband and I were riding our motorcycle when we had a terrible accident...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
I had a bad asthma attack which landed me in the hospital...
In 2005, I went to the hospital because I tried to drink a cup of coffee and where I thought it was, I couldn’t grab it...
It was nearly 28 years ago when I had my near death experience...
I am recording this experience on behalf of our son, Ben, who shared this NDE with us many times...
I woke up the morning of October 31, 1990 from a strange dream that I was pregnant again...
I was 16 years old and born into a practicing, Catholic family...
I was one year old and fell from the metal climbing structure at the playground...
In the middle of the night, I awoke with a severe migraine...
My wife traveled to Atlanta from our home in Maryland to celebrate Thanksgiving with her parents...
