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I was undergoing aneurysm surgery...
I didn’t feel anything, I didn’t even hear that the doctor was calling to me to make sure I was out, as I did at my first colonoscopy...
I was born with an ASD with failure to thrive...
I was around 5 yrs old, I was on our front porch and a snake had wrapped around my ankle/leg my Mom had come out with a broom and told me to keep dancing (guess I was jumping around) and she knocked it off...
The bus driver was pushing the brakes too hard...
Shared 1/2023 over two years after experience : I had quadruple bypass surgery...
I was having a simple operation under general anesthesia, rendering me unconscious...
There was everything and nothing; it was dark and light at the same time...
It was March 30, 2021, and I was going in for surgery first thing in the morning...
I experienced a NDE in 2015 after attempting to commit suicide...
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The anesthesiologist told me to count back from 100...
I had brain surgery on 2/24 for treatment of a large intraventricular brain cyst and was under anesthesia for 2 to 3 hours...
