Thank you for sharing Toto! I had one also in Aug. 8, 2010. Complications of a severe allergic reaction to a med along with severly low potassium led to my heart and breathing to cease.
I had gone in because my chest hurt...couldn't explain it but knew something deep down was not right. Went to urgent care and they figured it was maybe just asthma attack b/c of shallow breathing and pain. SO they gave me epinephrine by a shot and sat me there with a breathing treatement. About 2 min. later, after they had left me in the room by myself, the nurse comes back to find me a pale gray color and he freaks out asking what is wrong. I can barely speak, my body has gone rigid, my thoat is closing, and I just say in a whisper 'i can't breathe'.
With that he runs out, gets the gp, who puts me on 100 percent of 02 while checking my 02 stats which continue to decline rapidly despite the o2 tank on at 100 percent. My body just goes into a fetal position, and I start to fall off the chair as he is screaming multiple times for someone to get a gurney and call 911. They must have been going slow because he kept yelling 'hurry! She is going to code on us!" Someone picked me up, put me on the gurney, and the last thing I remember in consciousness is someone saying 02 is 30 percent...and the sight of some manager person(they were in a suit) looking very very worried. Paramedics showed up, gave me 02 but I was so tight and clamped down they had a hard time getting 02 in me. Heart rate appartently went up to 240...A Fib.....then flat lined.
Somewhere between the urgent care and hospital, I heard a voice...it was a womens voice. And she simply said "let go...it's time to let go." So I did...I was at peace, I have never felt so calm in my life, and I just felt like everything was going to be fine. I finally was able to take a deep breath...and I woke up shaking and in pain in the ER after drs had brought me back with 02,steriods to counter the allergic reaction, and a potassium drip to get me back on track that way overnight.
I didn't tell them either, but did question if there was a woman talking to me between the er and the hospital..even an emt...there was not.
I will remember this day forever I suspect...especially as a result I now have a heart arrythmia that I have to take medication for everyday to help. my physical heart, will never be as strong...but my heart being close to God, will never be the same.