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Has anyone a a near death experience during surgery?

Ef0168
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Just wondering if anyone had a near death experience and what it was like, I was hoping to but didn't.

Thanks Ed

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celeritas

I didn't, but I'll acknowledge you, Ed, for asking such a provocative question. I look forward to the replies...

TripleCher

I didn't either. But I woke up in the ICU room to human angels. The nurses were truly angels. Very caring.

TORELLOS

nope-had mine when i had heart attack!

blkrino

I was on the operating table, hardly able to move my head , in a very chilly operating room with lots of people all around me busily getting ready. All of the sudden this beautiful nurses face comes right up close to my face and said something to the effect of "I am your nurse, only for you and if you want anything at all, just ask and it's yours". As she finished saying that I felt the chill up my right arm and the lights went out. The reason for me not seeing the white light, I guess, is that I was trying to wake up as quick as possible so I could find that nurse again. When I woke up it was really hard to communicate with anyone since I had all these tubes in by throat and body....they just wouldn't listen.
Never did find that nurse again.
Never did find her again

pmob20

I never had that type of experience but after the tubes and such were removed form my body my first words were" Am I alive or dead?" Of course the nurse said alive and kickin....Even though I thought I was run over by a tractor trailer....Good luck

Marc

StevieD67

I remember while I was having my heart attack that the attending doctor in the ER was giving orders to any nurse that would listen and they couldn't give me the pills/blood thinners any faster if they tried!! Hand over fist, it seemed like!! The whole while, I was thinking what a damned inconvenience the whole thing was.........you see, I was fully expecting that if/when I had a heart attack (its in the genes, so not totally a suprise when it did happen.......on top of the fact that I felt like death warmed over for about six months before it happened) I expected that I would experience the whole pain/heaviness in the chest accompanied with pain shooting in the left arm.......you know what I'm saying. I felt NOTHING like that at all.

The reason I went to the ER at all was because I had a dull ache in my back behind my left shoulder blade that wouldn't go away, and so can I please have my pain reliever so I can go back home and watch the latest rerun of "Matlock"? When I was informed that my blood pressure was 256/170 and I was having a heart attack, I said, "I am? Oh that's just wonderful!" Next thing I knew I'm being told "take this..........and this.............and this" and put in an ambulance and rushed to St. Joe's in Syracuse because our local hospital in Watertown doesn't do bypasses. I barely remember getting there (it takes about an hour to drive, normally.......probably much quicker via ambulance).......I barely remember seeing my cousin there, and someone who worked there saying SOMETHING to me.

The very next thing I know is I hear a voice saying "You're awake now.........your surgery went very well." My first thought was, "What surgery?"

This confirms again for me that God knows our limitations better than we do; if I had known I needed this surgery and had to plan for it ahead of time, I would have been a basket case. What does this have to do with near-death? Probably not much to some, but it proved to me that I need to stop taking alot of things for granted. I could have been dead with NO preparation, and I would have been completely oblivious. It's thought-provoking to me to think about how close I came. Thank God for second chances.

MacAttack

I wouldn't say my experience is the kind that I've read about but for what it is worth...

Mine happened a few days after surgery when I was still in the Cardiac ICU. I went into A-fib.

What I remember was going back and forth between color and bright white light. It was like I was on a ladder and there was a trap door above my head. Every time I opened the trap door all I saw was the white light, it was every where and I saw nothing else. No more color. Then it was like someone (not sure who but it was NOT a long dead relative, or God) told me "it's not you're turn, go back down." Except I didn't really hear it, just understood what was being said. I never saw anyone, just the white light which was bright but not blinding, but peaceful. OK, it's weird...

It seemed to only last a few minutes but the wife told me it lasted about 30-40 minutes. She also told me, my pulse was over 300 bpm before they got it under control.

That's not the typical near death experience but I must tell you I no longer fear death. And I now go to church more regularly, not because I have to but because it makes me fell better.

Ef0168

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I guess when we have the surgery we are really not dead even though the heart is stopped.( I just read yesterday that on pump is better in the long run than off pump, no heart lung machine.) Anyway I guess I've become more obsessed with these type of subjects after my surgery. Trying to find answers, but none to find. I guess I'll have to wait and see when I get there.

Thanks again Ed

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