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It took me five years to be able to talk about my experience...
For a number of years I had been telling my doctor that I was always sad and depressed...
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Steve T NDE Home Classification NDE 3636 Steve T NDE 7172 Experience Description This was in 1976...
Prior to the accident, I was on a road called Shore Drive that runs parallel to the Chesapeake Bay east/west where I grew up...
I dove into the deep-end of public swimming bath on holiday, but I couldn't swim...
At a party, we joked that if anyone overdosed that they would get thrown in the back yard...
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My husband pushed me back and the chair fell backwards...
I was having a difficult labor and delivery of my son...
I remember being taken into the operating room for a cesarean section but remember nothing after being given medication...
I was 21 years old and 4 months pregnant...
I was visiting relatives with my parents...
While I was pregnant, I kept having horrible, bloody dreams like I was getting a fishing hook stuck in my arm and pulling everything out...
