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When I arrived at the toilet, I had real pain in my stomach...
I was at the dentist office for him to pull the first two jaw teeth on both sides of my mouth...
Jennifer J NDEs Home Classification NDEs/Shared NDE 3838 Jennifer J NDEs 7510 Experience Description After a normal and relatively easy childbirth, I began hemorrhaging uncontrollably...
Deborah R Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3842 Deborah R Probable NDE 7514 Experience Description I had been admitted to the hospital on December 25, 2010 for what I assumed was renal failure due to previous history of cervical cancer...
Bonnie L NDE Home Classification NDE 3844 Bonnie L NDE 7517 Experience Description I was spending the day at the river with my younger siblings, my mother, and some of her friends...
I was being taken into the operating room for a simple routine, outpatient procedure...
This is the first time I wrote down my experience...
Extreme fear before losing consciousness...
I had given birth to my second child, my daughter, about an hour prior to my experience...
Betty H NDE Home Classification NDE 3856 Betty H NDE 7530 Experience Description For the last 15 years, I had been caring for my husband who had suffered a stroke...
I had not been in the department long; it was an unusually hot month of May...
When I was seven, I snuck into a swimming pool in my apartment complex...
