The physician arrived in response to the call for help from my husband who had just arrived with my two older daughters.  They couldn't find any veins to put the intravenous needle into for the blood serum.  I was almost unconscious, my body did not respond, but my mind was conscious listening to everything that was being said around me.  They were worried because they couldn't find a vein and according to what they said I was losing my pulse. 

After this I remember beginning to rise upward and follow a white light that was getting bigger the closer I got to it.  I then heard only echoes of the voices of the people who were present in the room.  After this there was a total silence and I experienced an immense peace, tranquility.  I felt no pain, only great happiness and I sensed that something marvelous would be waiting for me once I reached the light.  Then I heard the echo of my daughters' voices (saying, "Mommy, what's happening to you mommy?") and the cries of my baby.  And then I remembered that I had 3 small children who needed me and I pleaded with God, saying to Him:  "No, my God, not yet.  My children need me" and I felt as if I fell down from above into the hospital cot where my body lay. 

I began to feel pain once again.  After this they took me to surgery where the doctors closed up my wound and cleaned up the spilled blood.  I don't know how long all this took, but afterward a doctor told me they had given me 2 liters of blood because I had lost so much.  He told me I had been very strong and that everything would be alright and I felt that what he said was the way things would be because God had given me more time to be in this life with the people I love most and who need me.
 

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes    The tranquility I felt was immense, something I still cannot explain even now.
 

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     After giving birth to my last child,  I decided to get my tubes tied and after the surgery one of the tubes had remained open and I was bleeding internally.  The people who were in charge of observing me did not pay attention and I got to my limits of pain, had convulsions, and almost lost consciousness.
 

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?   
 

When I felt myself rising up and I saw the great white light.
 

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?   More consciousness and alertness than normal

 

If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:            They were much stronger, as if I already knew that what awaited me was much better.
 

Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)?  Yes    I looked at this brilliant, dazzling, white light and somehow I could also see my children and the people who were trying to save my life.  
 

Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?  Yes.  I could tell where the echoes of the voices were coming from.
 

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?   Yes
 

What emotions did you feel during the experience?          Peace, tranquility, happiness.
 

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?         No      
 

Did you see a light?           Yes.  It was a brilliant light that got bigger and I followed it.
 

Did you meet or see any other beings?          No      
 

Did you experience a review of past events in your life?    No.  (But then she says,) Yes.  This life is fleeting and that a better life exists after this life.  There's no reason to fear death.  Death does not exist.  It is only a transition.
 

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?         No      
 

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes     As if everybody who is down below did everything more rapidly.  But I was up above as if suspended in time.
 

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Yes             There is a God, an omnipotent being who always hears us and sees us.
 

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Yes       I recovered the ability to see current and future events in dreams.  I had this gift as a child but for some reason I lost it.  After this I began to have intuitive dreams once again.
 

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     Months afterwards my mother was the first one I told and she became very emotional and cried.
 

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    Uncertain           Programs, books, but I don't believe they had any influence because my experience was something inexplicable, neither in books nor in programs could the feeling of immense peace ever be described exactly.
 

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:  

The experience was probably real.  In the days following I believed it had been caused by the pain since I had read in books that doctors determined that life after death experiences were a state of consciousness to escape pain.
 

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?  Yes.  The part where I pleaded with God to leave me even though I felt this immense force attracting me, and nevertheless He allowed me to stay in this life.
 

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:           The experience was definitely real.  I now see it was definitely real because the immense peace that I felt will never be found anywhere here on earth.  I am now sure it was something supernatural.
 

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           Yes     I now am more giving to my family.  I have forgiven people whom I never thought I would forgive.    Now material things, which seem so important and some necessary to live or live well, are not the most important things.
 

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            Yes          I now follow all the norms of the church and I take my family with me to church.
 

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?        No      
 

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience? Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?         Yes.  I would like to say that everybody is here temporarily, and if we learn as much as possible to get along with each other better, everything will be much easier because this life isn't the real life.  We have to learn how to be good because what awaits us is much better.  And we don't need to fear death, because death does not exist.  It is only a change of life.
 

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         Yes      The questions were very adequate and I explained my experience with the most explicit details.