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I lived in Panama...
I was brought into the operating room for gallbladder surgery...
I remember when going under for open heart surgery...
I am a young mother of three who had 20 minutes of Near- Death and Out-of-body experience in 2019, at age 34...
I was diagnosed with esophageal IV cancer on November 11, 2020...
Because of my condition, I went into full septic shock and all my organs started failing...
I was sitting on my bed with one foot on the floor and the other on the bed, I had only been home for about 10 or 15 minutes after leaving the hospital...
I already had several surgeries with general anesthetics, (at least 5)...
I was admitted in the hospital for ulcerations inside the bladder...
Below are the notes in my medical record concerning the event that led to the NDE: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts X 3 Notes: GSRMC LEFT INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY, LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY, SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT TO OBSTUSE MARGINAL BRANCE OF CIRC...
I was 17 years old, on a date with my then boyfriend and our friend...
