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I was out running and started having chest pains...
Rebecca B FDE Home Classification FDE 2873 Rebecca B FDE 6049 Experience Description My father had passed away almost one year at the time of my car accident...
I had gone to bed around 9PM because I wanted to be rested for some class tests I was going to have the following day...
Enrique NDE Home Classification NDE 3129 Enrique NDE 6394 Experience Description On 5/31/12, I recall being very distressed because I had relapsed on cocaine after having had a substantial amount of clean time...
I had a severe bronchitis that evening that caused severe shortness of breath...
While suffering with a bad case of the flu, I was lying on the couch when suddenly everything went black...
I had been lying on the treatment table for some time...
I had been riding my motorcycle like I have done so for many years with a high level of competence...
I don't have in my memory the events that led up to my experience, but I know I was two years old and under water in my grandparents' swimming pool...
I woke up from my bed in the middle of the night from a bad headache...
I was in my first year at Washington University...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
