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I had a fast childbirth, but the doctor was not ready...
In 1973, at the age of twenty, I was in a serious automobile accident...
Mark W NDEs Home Classification NDEs 3185 Mark W NDEs 6484 Experience Description Some months after the car wreck I had been in, I encountered another brush with death and another trip out of my body...
I felt light as I looked down and saw my body lying lifeless with my family around me...
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Helen E NDE Home Classification NDE 3305 Helen E NDE 6664 Experience Description I had been hemorrhaging due to a contraceptive (which soon after was pulled off the market)...
Cardiac catheter error resulted in bypass graft spiral dissection and iatrogenic heart attack followed by urinary tract infection related to non-sterile Foley placement later leading to urosepsis, septic shock, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, , renal f...
I was in the park in Little Rock, checking out the SCA...
I was strapped onto a T-Bar in the surgery prepping me...
My ulcer literally exploded as soon as the cauterizing needle touched it...
It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
I was 14 years old...
