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I was stabbed and was to have emergency care...
I remember walking and being outside looking at myself but not really knowing it was me and a warm light that almost seemed to caress me and I was not afraid nor did I want anything or was I in any pain...
I was experiencing my first panic attack, which at that time I thought was a heart attack, so I drove myself to the nearest hospital...
The third strike of the club put me down to the floor almost instantly...
I had surgery October 25th 2006...
I'm in a very, very dark place (frighteningly dark), but I know to look for a light, and I find one off in the distance...
The night before I attempted to take my life...
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My NDE occurred in the mid-fifties in a maternity hospital in California during the delivery of my third child...
I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
While being transported to Harborview Hospital via helicopter, I found myself floating above my body and looking down at it through the air-grill that lined the radius at the roof line of the interior of the helicopter...
I had been having intense fever for three days with great bodily pain and a rapid heartbeat...
The time was June 12, 1982; approximately...
