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In November 2016, I went in for spinal cord surgery. My surgery was successful, but two days later, before I was to be discharged, the nurse noticed I was bleeding from my surgical site. They notified the doctor of my bleeding, the doctor controlled the hemorrhage, and I had to go back to surgery.
When I went into pre-op to get ready for my second surgery, I felt like something was going to happen, like I was doing to die. I remember lying on the gurney in a dark room. I remember hearing a beautiful waterfall. Then I looked to my left, and seeing the waterfall, I said to myself, “I'm dead.”
After saying that, I saw the most beautiful blue sky and then trees I had never seen before, and then I saw a beautiful mountain. It was the most peaceful and calm place, and then I felt God's presence. I started talking to him, then I felt his arms start to hold me, then we talked.
I remember saying that I was going to see my body on the gurney because I felt my body on the gurney. I was still talking to God and I did not want to return to my body or go back, but I had to come back. But I said, “I'm going to count to three, then I'm going to see my body lying on the gurney.” When I started to count, I said, “One.” I was still looking around in amazement and still talking to God. Then I said, “Two,” getting ready to see my body, and before I could say, “Three,” it felt like a vacuum sucked me back in my body. I woke up paralyzed on my right side.
I asked the doctors what happened and they said that they "lost me for a while."
This happened to me while getting a hernia repair. I was told I flatlined for 2 min 30 sec. No heartbeat, no breathing, nothing. They resuscitated me but I didn't wake till in the hospital ICU. I spent 5 days in hospital afterwards.
I was on a boat in Florida with my wife and her father's family. The boat was stuck because a rope was sucked into the engine.
When I was 20 years old, I was serving a mission for the LDS church in Puerto Rico. One day, we were riding our bikes on the side of the road, going to an appointment to teach investigators about the church. As we were going down the road, I was riding my bike in front of my companion, and a car rapidly made its way off the road and hit me, throwing me into a telephone pole.
I had to have an emergency appendectomy, and it was my first surgery. I was in the hospital overnight and surgery was next morning.
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