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“It will be OK...
I was feeling ill...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
When I was five years old, I became sick with a streptococcal sore throat (strep throat), and had to go to the hospital...
Duane S NDE Home Classification NDE 3993 Duane S NDE 7743 Experience Description Dying to Really Live by Duane F Smith...
Richard B NDE Home Classification NDE 1453 Richard B NDE 144 Experience Description I was on my way to work, 1:30 in the afternoon, temperature was 105 degrees, I was riding my motorcycle, car turned at last second, I hit car approximately two feet from fro...
I have the very clear memory that in December 2003, I don't know the exact day anymore, at the Judo club, I was at training with Sébastien...
I went to donate blood on my college campus...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
I had a very high temperature as a result of having Scarlet Fever...
January 22, 2009 I was hit by a drunk driver in a truck on my way to work at about 10:30 pm...
I was transferred from a private birthing room to the emergency room after the staff noticed that my baby might require her stomach and lungs to be cleaned because she might have meconium aspiration syndrome...
