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I was feeling apprehensive before the operation...
Micella NDE Home Classification NDE 3654 Micella NDE 7201 Experience Description This event has always been retained in my memory...
I had my gallbladder removed and went home...
I fainted two consecutive times...
Marty M NDE Home Classification NDE 2694 Marty M NDE 5169 Experience Description I was in total blackness and wondered to myself 'What...
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event...
The anesthesiologist wanted to block my left arm so that I may stay awake while the doctors performed surgery to attached my severed pinky and repair the tendons...
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In that moment, my whole life with every single scene that it was composed of passed by very quickly...
I was conscious through the entire process...
I was very depressed over many issues and felt very alone...
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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 know it's hard to believe at three years old going on four...
