My near-death experience changed my life.

​I remember that morning like it was yesterday, it was around April 2000. I was young with lots of dreams and ambitions. That Monday was almost like every Mondays the only difference was that I was burning hot with fever and then; the nightmare began. My life was going to be changed forever and I will never forget that.

Four days prior, I was suffering from acute upper back pain, it was so severe that I had to go to the clinic. they then prescribed some medicines that I started to take as soon as I got home. A couple of hours later I started experiencing stiffness in my joints and a slight dizziness.
My partner and I had previously planned to spend the weekend at a nice resort especially because his birthday was on that Friday. Although I didn’t feel like moving we did end going there. Let's say I just didn’t want to spoil the occasion because I knew it was special to us. I went there but couldn’t do much. He was not very happy, but honestly, I was in too much pain to care.

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I remember that morning like it was yesterday, it was around April 2000. I was young with lots of dreams and ambitions. That Monday was almost like every Mondays the only difference was that I was burning hot with fever and then; the nightmare began. My life was going to be changed forever and I will never forget that.
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Four days prior, I was suffering from acute upper back pain, it was so severe that I had to go to the clinic. they then prescribed some medicines that I started to take as soon as I got home. A couple of hours later I started experiencing stiffness in my joints and a slight dizziness.
My partner and I had previously planned to spend the weekend at a nice resort especially because his birthday was on that Friday. Although I didn’t feel like moving we did end going there. Let's say I just didn’t want to spoil the occasion because I knew it was special to us. I went there but couldn’t do much. He was not very happy, but honestly, I was in too much pain to care.

​Then, I could hear people talking, I heard my mother praying and my partner was crying. I saw myself laying down on the bed, my mother and everyone else who were in the room. I couldn’t know how long I was there, but I was there. Then came the time where I was taken to a different place where I could no longer hear anyone but the man in the whitest suit, I’ve ever seen that was with me.

He was showing a beautiful place, full of flowers and nice trees. It looked like a garden in the widest valley you could imagine. I was so happy and excited that I told myself that I didn’t want to go back home. I felt light and everything was so bright. As we walk, I wanted to ask so many questions, but I couldn’t open my mouth. I was just enjoying the view. There was a time when I saw a few people gardening and picking up flowers and singing some songs I have never heard before and then I suddenly couldn’t see nor hear the man anymore.

I was back to the hospital room, it seemed like mother had never left my side, I saw what looked like a cake and my partner putting flowers in a vase on a table next to my bed. He looked so sad. I was not flying it was more like I was floating or hanging, there is are words that can fully describe was I experiencing. Strangely enough, as soon as I was back in the room, I was not only connected to everyone, I knew their names, who they were I could also feel their sadness, their pain, and their fear. For some reason my mother and my partner were the two people I was more connected with, it was such where I could feel their heartbeats. I was so sad to see my mother in so much pain.  No one spoke until my partner said well it’s her birthday at least she should taste her cake, a nurse then said; she has been in coma for weeks and she has eaten anything, I don’t believe it’s a good idea to put the cake in her mouth, he then insisted that at least he would  put it on my lips and then, wipe it off.

I was just there watching everyone and my body motionless on that bed, all It was a very anxious time for me, I was wondering if I would ever be able to go back in my body because the pain of loved one became an unbearable sight at that point, I couldn’t recognize that person on the bed anymore. I was burnt, looking like someone poured hot water all over me. 

There was that one morning when the doctor walked into the room and I remember words for words what he said to my parents and my partner; “I’m sorry but she has a 5% chance of making it through the day. My partner broke down in tears and he couldn’t hold himself up, everyone else was troubled by the news but my mother fell on her knees and started to pray to God. Then all went blank again, I don’t know for how long, but I felt peaceful.
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Afterward, everything became so clear, it was like daylight and I could feel myself hovering in the air. As I was up there, I saw a large crowd of people going towards the hospital where I was at, I started panicking and this smooth and calming voice told me don’t they cannot take anywhere because I will not allow it. That person was right next to me and started to fly with me, I try to turn my heard I was unable to. I was curious, I wanted who it was, but I felt someone holding so tight that had no more fear. I looked, and I will never forget what I saw, it was the most beautiful and transparent thing I’ve ever seen. The wing of an Angel, that’s what was wrapped around my hand and keeping me safe from death that day. After seeing the angel, the next thing I knew was that I was talking to my parents in the hospital. I later told my mother about what I heard the doctor says, she told me yes, it was three day before you woke up. ​

From that very moment, my healing process started, because I had completely lost the skin all over my body. I made it, I’m here.
I later found out that, it was a terrible allergy to one of the medicines I was taking, and when I arrived at the hospital, I was then given another one through IV that made it worse. According to researches only 3% who went through this made it out alive. Eighteen years after I still cry every time, I share this experience. It took Someone who conquered death to take me through it and stay alive. I’m grateful every day  for waking up another day, and that near-death experience changed my life for ever.