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I was only young when I had my accident.
My parent bought me a BMX bike for my birthday. That day I went out on my bike to pick up milk for my mother.
I had been ill with chest pain, fever, headache, night sweats for about a week, but had not missed work (we were too short staffed, and I could walk and think, so just wore a mask around the patients. Tested negative for TB.) and I was on-call.
I experienced my NDE as a 19-year-old university student, during a particularly strenuous and exam-laden part of the semester. I had been stressing and studying, and had neglected to eat or sleep much that week.
NDE I Deeper and Deeper
At the age of 3 or 4 while swimming at the Fisher’s Swimming Pool (about 1958), my circular floating tube became my death trap. I could see my sisters’ who were with me, the one closest to me was sitting on the cement sidewalk talking to two boys. The pool wasn’t really even open yet, so the life guard wasn’t there.
On the last working day before Christmas, I went to the parking lot with a friend to look at his new car. He was slightly ahead of me as we made our way across the pavement.
Suddenly, I realized I was going to faint and I tried to get as low to the ground as possible.
