re: NDE Near Death Experience

Nov 21, 2016. I was in the CICU at Grandview Hospital in Hoover, AL. I was seven days past open-heart surgery to replace my faulty mitral valve with a mechanical mitral valve. One of the things about having a mechanical valve is you have to go on blood thinner ASAP to prevent blood from clotting on the valve. The only blood thinner you can take though is Coumadin. When you first go on Coumadin they cannot tell how much to give you. Well, they gave my far too much . What happened is my blood was so thin I began bleeding from the sutures in my heart. I was bleeding out into my chest cavity. The bleeding got to the point it filled my chest cavity with blood and my heart could not beat. It stopped my heart. I coded. They rushed me to surgery. First they cut open my abdomen because they thought my intestines had “died”. Then they cracked my chest back open and discovered the real issue. They cut a “window” in the sac around my heart to allow that blood to drain, reinserted the drain tubes in my chest (they’d been removed a few days before), and gave me enough blood transfusions to get me going again. Basically, I’d bled out by the time my heart had stopped. How long I was gone, I still don’t know. I know my heart stopped sometime that night after about 6 PM. It did not beat on its own until they did the surgery.

I personality have no memory of any of it. The last thing I remember was when the nurses made me get out of my recliner to get back in the bed. That was around 5:30 - 6:00 PM. Everything after that until about 1:00 AM when I woke up in the bed on a ventilator is a complete blank. I didn’t even know how serious the situation was until later that morning when all the team of doctors and surgeons came during moring rounds to check on me. I remember the surgeon who opened up my abdomen was the one who said something that clued me in. He said “you look a lot better this morning. Of course the last time I saw you though, you were dead”.

(I know this story will trigger some, especially the troll TigerShit08 and the worthless junky felon SS. But I honestly don’t give a shite about either of them. Everything I’ve said is true. The fact they can’t accept it is their problem.)