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I was put by my parents in a ‘crib’ for young children where the water was up to chin level...
I was age 4 at the moment of my experience...
Well, my name is Hugo, I live in Recife...
I was 14 and was at college...
It happened during an operation for appendicitis...
My mother was getting me ready or school...
-------------------------------- This is an account of my experience, which details both before and after events...
Hard one to answer: I had awareness of my surroundings and persons around me for only a few seconds...
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 remember very vividly as though it happened yesterday...
I experienced an eclamptic [Editor’s note: A form of toxemia of pregnancy...
