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Before the experience: I had a terrible cold...
I had been home from the hospital for 3 days and was recovering in my bedroom...
It was a normal day at work...
Good morning, I do not know if mine can be defined in a strict sense as an NDE, but it has some traits in common...
I have always sought knowledge at a different level than my peers and family, as such I have experimented with many religious/ spiritual exercises...
In my mid-forties, my pancreas began to malfunction due to a birth defect later discovered during surgery...
I was in excruciating pain for 2 years from 1974 to 1976...
The day of my OBE is one I can remember as though it just happened...
A few days following my release from hospital from a partial hysterectomy I woke up to major blood loss...
I was due to have six teeth removed (no idea why at six years old), and I remember the mask being placed on my face and the smell of the gas...
At the age of 2, I told my mother how I came onto earth...
As I was working as a medical doctor at the end of a visit, going out from the house of the patient, the last thing I remember is a door enlightened in an unearthly fashion, then nothing else, until I woke up two days later in an hospital with seven fractures...
