Cardiac Arrest

The pain intensified from mild to severe in less than an hour. Soon, I was on the floor in a cold sweat, the pain all-consuming as I was rapidly losing consciousness. My roommate had called paramedics...

It was an uncommonly hot and humid spring day. It began that morning before I went to work at 4:30. I was having a difficult time breathing, and felt very lethargic. After a cup of coffee, I felt a bi...

I was picking up my daughter from school. While I was walking there, I dropped to the floor. I was having a heart attack! I was walking in a pretty populous area, so there were many people around. How...

I was admitted at the emergency room with suspected heart problems. After a few hours of intensive care, I was rolled to the corridor of a ward because they didn't have enought beds. That first night,...

I was in the hospital for a miscarriage, had a dilatation and curettage procedure, and had an allergic reaction to morphine. I was in intensive care for about a week. That night, I knew I was running ...

I'd never experienced all that before. It made me aware of how alive everything is. God is in every fiber of the universe. He's all over and knows all. He's not a person as some may think. God is an e...

The doctor came in and talked to me. He told me that my heart needed attention, so I was being taken to the emergency room. I do not remember anything of the surgery I had after the knockout shot. The...

I had a rough life as a child growing up. My parents were very strict with me, not allowing me to have any friends. They kept me in the house and even had a tutor coming to the house to school me. At ...

I found myself leaving my body and floating up to the ceiling area of the room in which the medical personnel were working on me. As I floated up to the ceiling area, I was watching the medical team w...

I thought I had acid reflux. On the third day, the pain moved to my shoulders and I had trouble breathing. I was sitting on the couch and all of a sudden I was no longer in my house I was standing on ...

I was having difficulty breathing. There was a doctor to my left and two nurses with him. He was injecting my IV and asking me why I couldn't breathe. I was now lying flat on my back looking at the ce...

I lived in Oklahoma City with my son of two years while I was attending college. I became ill and called my parents in the small town of Grandfield two hours away. I asked them to come get my son, and...