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It was 11 pm, I was returning home from university and as a joke I sat on the hood of the car...
I was four years old...
It seemed as though the planet kept moving, but I didn't...
Penny C NDE Home Classification NDE 3680 Penny C NDE 7234 Experience Description I remember being with some friends...
I remember going to my best friend's house in the afternoon...
Brenda R NDE Home Classification NDE 3688 Brenda R NDE 7245 Experience Description All of a sudden, I was in the presence of those people who had died before me...
I was up high looking down on a hospital scene...
I was living in Iowa...
I was diagnosed terminal and in and out of consciousness for several weeks...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
While on the ventilator I remember seeing my hands so swollen, I said to myself, 'Oh sh#$, I'm septic...
I got a shock when I sucked a piece of candy down the windpipe...
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