Sharon Stone and the "light" in a tunnel...

Storm

Smile dammit!
I was reading an article about her and she said she had a near death experience two years ago. She believes she saw a tunnel with light at the end and she was getting closer,but never reached it as it wasn't her time to go. She also said she'd had discussions with long passed away relatives.
Well,as someone who has been at that door three times in the last year,i dispute that. I think it's just what she wanted to believe.All i remember is the blackness of unconciousness. I am not saying i know the ultimate truth,just that i'm a realist and it never happened to me anyway.I still believe if i hadn't made it the Lord would be there,or maybe even the other one waiting to bring you down,down.
I was unconscious with stomach pains that were agony and my consultant snapped her fingers and said "chop chop!". "We have to get him down now as he's dying."They put membranes over my eyes to prevent retinal damage as my eyeballs swelled up so much the veins were bulging. And i recently found out i had 9 pints of blood in transfusions. As there are only 8 in the human body,i may be American or Russian now!
I just wondered had anyone else heard or experienced this commonly reported phenomenon
 

Serena

Administrator
Storm--quite an interesting topic. After everything you've been through in the past year, it's truly amazing that you're here with us now.

I've had many patients over the years who claimed to have experienced just such a phenomenon. There are many health care professionals, and others, who would like to attribute this to other factors, such as the huge, bright fluorescent lights, the voices of the medical team as they're talking and sometimes shouting to each other in the O.R. sneaking even past the anesthesia, etc.

Storm--when you say you remember the "blackness of unconsciousness", does that mean you were aware at the time of lying there in blackness, or does that you mean you don't remember anything about that period and it's just a blackness in your memory? I'm curious about that.

I've always kept an open mind about this, but have had more than few experiences that to this day make me wonder. I have had children come to, after having been resuscitated, who claim to have spoken with a grandparent or some other relative who was deceased. In several of these cases, the parents informed me that the child had been an infant or a tiny child when that relative died and there was no way they would have known or remembered them. One little girl, 7-years-old, told us that her mother, who had actually died immediately after giving birth to her from an embolism, had spoken to her and told her she was not ready be with her yet, but she had been watching over her her whole life and would always do so.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
 

KATHYPURDOM

Steven Seagal Fan
I don't believe the light in the tunnel or seeing or watching doctors work on you in an operating room. I do believe that there is something, but maybe it's different for all of us. Only time will tell.
Storm i'm sorry that you have had such a bad time.
I have had a bad year to with things that have gone wrong with me. I have been on the operating table 4 times in the past year and I don't remember seeing or hearing anything.
Kathy
 

Storm

Smile dammit!
Aw Kathy,i'm sorry you have had so much pain and bother. I've had 17 ops and am as still in reasonable condition. You get used(partially anyway) to the pain and signing the consent form with a gulp. You just have to trust them. You're hardly in a position to argue! It's made me realise that drifting through life is a lie. You only get the one,and i intend to make the best of it. I suppose it's if you have endless love you can beat anything. Casey will understand.Sorry if that's sloppy,but that's me i suppose.
Serena,it wasn't total blackness. I came around and saw so many tubes and monitors i hyperventilated with the shock. The worst of it was they screwed it up and everything came open and i had to go under again in late Jan. This time,i was aware enough to know i might not make it a 2nd time with blood poisoning leaving me utterly weak. My family prayed in the chapel. She just promised she'd do her best,and i owe her my life. I thought that was it and the only way was up,until May when they did a multiple op to put Humpty back together and they had to force a line down to ventilate and damaged my throat. That was the 3rd brush with death. This time,it was mainly blackness as they do a good job knocking you out,but apparently i went to the other side for a time. I think they blew the light fuses with them electric pads,heh. Dunno. I'm still here,and am grateful for that. I'm much stronger,but face more trials yet,i know.I just like good people. The bad ones will go with Old Nick!
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