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I saw myself through someone else's eyes...
I didn't see a light or deceased loved ones but I recall looking at (although I had no eyes or a body) a bluish green almost translucent membrane...
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 undergoing a gynecologic surgery...
I don't really recall too much, as my kidneys were failing, I was experiencing severe hallucinations...
I was anesthetized for a simple operation...
In consciousness I remember the surgeon telling me that I had to have surgery...
I was in a warm and very comfortable place...
I was leaving an art show at the local art gallery that I had put together for the artists I was acting as agent for when I was struck in the middle of a busy intersection by a car...
12/27/2004, approximately 12:15 am, I was brought to hospital by ambulance having severe chest pain, vomiting, numbness of right arm, etc...
The experience took place during the summer of 2002 while I was in Afghanistan as a reporter covering stories for media outlets that I worked for...
On Friday, September 13, 2013 I was scheduled to undergo a bilateral TMJ arthroplasty with abdominal fat grafting (taking fat from my abdominal area and replace my missing articular discs in my temporomandibular joints)...
