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I was about 10 to 12 years old when my dentist gave me anesthesia in his dental practice. (I recently learned from a medical source that at that time, early 1960s, the correct required dose of 'laughing gas' for children was not yet known.)
My mother was abusive and had been suffocating me with a pillow sporadically, beginning when I was 5. I was a screamer and she would hold the pillow over my face until I quit struggling and went quiet. I learned to quit struggling very quickly.
In November 2016, I went in for spinal cord surgery. My surgery was successful, but two days later, before I was to be discharged, the nurse noticed I was bleeding from my surgical site. They notified the doctor of my bleeding, the doctor controlled the hemorrhage, and I had to go back to surgery.
When I went into pre-op to get ready for my second surgery, I felt like something was going to happen, like I was doing to die. I remember lying on the gurney in a dark room. I remember hearing a beautiful waterfall. Then I looked to my left, and seeing the waterfall, I said to myself, “I'm dead.”
This happened to me while getting a hernia repair. I was told I flatlined for 2 min 30 sec. No heartbeat, no breathing, nothing. They resuscitated me but I didn't wake till in the hospital ICU. I spent 5 days in hospital afterwards.
I was on a boat in Florida with my wife and her father's family. The boat was stuck because a rope was sucked into the engine.
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