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John Y NDE Home Classification NDE 504 John Y NDE 86 Experience Description While in the ambulance, I was in shock, from the pain of my accident(I fell from a ladder and landed feet first in the road; I crushed and broke both ankles, heels, feet; my right f...
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At first I was experiencing the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my life...
Here is my account, I strived to put all I remember in it...
I had an NDE when I was eight in 1984, as a result of being in a coma...
MY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Mary B (Licensed Practical Nurse) The accident was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, and it is also the best thing that has ever happened to me...
It was about ten years old when I had the first NDE...
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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Yesterday (Thurs, 2/23), I remembered a little more from the recovery room...
1995 - In the intensive care unit, curtain surrounding the bathroom area, light began emitting from behind the curtain (sort of 'Wizard of Oz'-like - no noise, just light and vibration)...
On my way to a camping trip in the Smokey Mountains I had a severe front tire blow out...
I experienced a life review moments before a car that I was driving smashed into a telephone pole...
I was on a gurney...
