To ask if you've ever had a near death experience and what went through your mind?

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I have a medical condition that sometimes brings on seizures. I have stopped breathing a couple of times in the past. I felt really unwell in a hospital waiting room one day (best place to be I suppose), and after waiting hours, I got up to speak to the receptionist to tell them I was feeling really unwell. I collapsed in the middle of the waiting room. I was aware, but things around me seemed a little distant. I noticed that I wasn't breathing, and I really thought that I was going to die. My mind was very calm and willing to go along with it. I thought Oh well, that's that. I was 32 at the time.

Any way, the doctors rushed over and got me breathing again. I find it a little bit reassuring how calm I was. But also a little bit scary how little fight I have to survive.

Has any one had any experiences like this they want to share?

Bad accident, coma etc.
Last thing I remembered was seeing it start to happen, knowing that this was going to be very bad and just thinking "ah, crap".
About the same intensity of emotion as feeling a pair of jeans, that you knew were too old, start to rip when you crouch down. Just a quiet inevitability.

Lost about 3L giving birth. I just remember thinking "Oh dear" as they were giving me oxygen and stitching a line into my wrist for a blood tranfusion

I had sepsis and it was very close but maybe not as close as some have been. I remember feeling that I was in terrible trouble as if I had been caught out doing something absolutely wicked. Then I felt pure fascination at what was going on around me (people putting lines in and cutting my clothes to get access etc). Later I was very feverish and was slightly perturbed to see both Mick Jagger and Julie Andrews crowding round my bed trying to give me water. Oh and a clown was sulking in the armchair in the corner. He stayed ages.

At no point did I panic.

Are you sure?

Losing 2 litres is a pre-terminal event: women only have 4.5 litres of blood altogether... if you lost all but 500ml of blood, you'd need a lot more than oxygen...

Lol well someone lost 8 litres further up thread apparently

8 litres! 🤔

I’m a midwife. I’ve known women lose a lot more than 4 litres. Ie all their circulating volume and then some.

We’re obviously ramming it in the top end hopefully slightly faster than it’s coming out the other end. Biggest transfusion I’ve known was 30 units. Squeezing the bags in as quick as we could.

Meant to say we measure the blood loss by measuring and weighing and that figure will be what it is. 8 Litres, 12 litres, whatever.

Yes it's in the notes from the hospital. Why would I lie about it?

I nearly bled out from a stomach ulcer. I could feel myself going and the rush of people moving in to help. I remember calm, quiet and thinking is this it then?