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June 21, 1957, I turned fifteen years old...
I remember being ill that morning, after mom found I had a fever, she called Dr...
I was alone in my room in bed the day after the open heart surgery...
It was after my second surgery...
Contacted doctor because of swelling in upper leg which would not shrink nor go away - examined by internist and surgeon - diagnosed femoral hernia - surgery 2:00 pm...
I realized that I was no more than an eye or something with vision, which was me, and I was on top of the lights in the surgery room...
I was having dental surgery for impacted wisdom teeth...
I was involved in a motorcycle accident...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
My sister, my best friend and I had been swimming in the river...
Christian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2361 Christian D NDE 4662 Experience Description I woke up in some scrub hearing friends' voices looking for me...
I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
