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Prior to my heart attack I was at a hotel venue, ready to give a talk to fellow teachers...
The 17th of November 2011 I went to the operating room for a lipoma [tumor of the fatty tissue] operation in the right armpit, nothing serious, only the risk of any operation with a general anesthesia...
I was in the bathroom...
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I went to the toilet due to violent abdominal pain...
On Friday, September 13, 2013 I was scheduled to undergo a bilateral TMJ arthroplasty with abdominal fat grafting (taking fat from my abdominal area and replace my missing articular discs in my temporomandibular joints)...
I felt a searing pain in my left arm and felt something on my leg that felt like a fish...
My 10 year old daughter was staying home with me due to my illness...
Kelly Q Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3492 Kelly Q Probable NDE 6951 Experience Description When I felt my heart stop, I was instantly outside my body...
Prior to my near death experience, I had been exposed to Black Mold for months in the home I lived in at the time with my husband and son, in California...
Trying to describe the events that happened on the evening of the 26th December 2010 is an exercise that seems difficult, in the way that it is the first time that I'm doing it...
Just one impulse and there I am above a strange scene : 5 to 6 people in green overalls, take turns on an aspiration machine that they have connected to a woman's body of about 33 years...
Theresa C NDE Home Classification NDE 3498 Theresa C NDE 5455 Experience Description I was at home having lunch with my mother, brother and grandmother...
