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In reply to the discussion: When you die, there will be nobody waiting to greet you [View all]hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I remember it pretty well, but afterwards is a fog for 3 days.
The dying part - had high blood pressure due to extreme stress at work. Went on vacation, did not have a blood pressure machine with me. Took my pills twice a day like the doctor ordered. Kept sleeping more and more on vacation, was hard to get up to go home. The next day, got up to go to work felt funny. Called the doctor to tell her I felt funny. She said if it was weird enough for me to call about it, that I should go to the nearest emergency room yadda yadda yadda,
To the point. They took me right in after they looked at me and hooked me up to a blood pressure machine. I was hooked up and wondering how long this would take when alarms went off and a crash cart came in the door - it was like in slow motion I was watching my blood pressure plummer for the initial 60 over 30 to 0. I looked at the crash cart and wondered why they were there and I would have to see what they wanted to do, but I was very tired, so I would just close my eyes for a minute and then would see what they were going to do. I woke up with my brother crying next to me, apparently they had to resuscitate me. then the alarms went off again - rinse, wash repeats to thinking I wanted to talk to my brother and would do it after my nap. I woke up 3 days later and was told they had to resuscitate me 3 times.
So no greeters, no being sent back, no white light, no acknowledgement in my mind I was dying.
I guess the lesson to this is if you want to die peacefully and quietly - over dose on blood pressure pills.
When I woke up, the doctor smacked me in the head and called me a goof for dying like that. But she was glad to see I was OK. And told me never to take a pill again without taking my blood pressure first!