Debbie describes her near-death experience.

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So, he was – they put in there and I said – they said, ‘What’s happening? What are you feeling?’ And I said, ‘I have intense pressure.’ Intense pressure in my head, my neck and my chest. And I said, ‘My head, my neck and my chest.’ The intense pressure was so great it was, it’s almost indescribable. And the next thing I know I’m gone. I’m gone, I’m dead. And how do you I describe it because I remember everything. And this is the weirdest part. I remember everything and it’s like, what happened is I suddenly went from me, my conscious me, to like ‘Is this my body?’. Inside me was hollow. And I was put inside my body and I’m looking down towards my feet but I can’t see anything. It’s the blackest black I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen black as black as this. I was trying to squint to see some sort of light, and this was all happening in seconds, right. I was squinting and I couldn’t see anything. And I realized I wasn’t breathing and it didn’t matter. And then I felt my bowels go. I said, ‘Oh, I pooped myself.’ And I said, ‘I must’ve died.’ That’s when it all hit me. But this was a matter of like seconds and milliseconds. And I could hear mumbling or talking or something, but I couldn’t make them out. And I could feel this bounce on my chest going up and down, and up and down, and up and down. And it was – I realized that somebody was doing CPR but it didn’t feel – I couldn’t feel it. I just felt this pressure above me going up and down. And I said, ‘Somebody’s doing CPR and they’re doing a good job.’ And I say that because I used to teach CPR, so I knew whoever was doing it was doing a good job. And that seems kind of weird.

But then – and this was all happening again like I said in seconds and – it felt like seconds anyway. But I was gone two and a half minutes, around there. And I could hear them talking, and I was trying to listen to them but I couldn’t hear what they were saying. And the next thing I know, I started feeling pain. And then it started getting worse and then it started getting worse, and then it was the worst pain I’ve ever felt including childbirth, in my life.  The pressure of them giving CPR was actually hurting because now it was piercing, I could feel it piercing me and the pain was immense. And I didn’t know whether to go towards the pain or run away from it. I wanted to run away from it and something felt, like pulled me. I should go towards it. And I didn’t know what to do and I said, ‘Jesus, you decide. You decide. Just Jesus be with me. Just be with me Jesus. Jesus be with me. Jesus please be with me.’ And that’s it. And they brought me back. And one of the – and I took a deep big breath and like sort of half brought my head up a bit and the nurse said, ‘How do you feel?’ I said, ‘Like hell.’

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