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I did not wake up for at least a day and maybe two or three days after surgery...
Growing Up I was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest daughter in a family of five children...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
I made a pact with God to take me in a major heart attack: I had been suffering physically and emotionally most of my life...
I was walking my dog and began sneezing...
My experience took place a litle over three months ago...
December 6, 2017, I was holding my newborn baby who had been born in the evening via c-section...
I lived in a very small community in a rural area where everyone knows everyone else...
I remember the four hours it took to get me to surgery)...
My first NDE happened when I was about 5 or 6 years old...
At the time of my experience, I had a very hard life with disease and I had a feeling of disorientation...
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This experience is told to Peggi, a friend of Sheila's for almost 30 years...
