Jeffrey C's NDE

Experience description: 

I heard my friends voices; one said you better go & get his parents, this looks serious.  Shortly after that I remember seeing myself lying on the road, next to the telephone pole...my hands were stretched up, pointing up to the sky, as I was still dizzy & falling - yet here I was already lying on my back!  My friends were standing around me like looking down on a "football" huddle...some how I felt like I was on top of the telephone pole, watching this scene unfold.

I saw John start to run to the left, towards my house - I watched him until he came to the end of the building and turned to his right.  I thought "does he know where to go?"  Suddenly  I moved up higher, like up to the 3rd or forth level of the 10 story mill building an the street of our ball game...I could see him still running until he came to the street I lived on - he turned left.  It happened again - I had moved up in height to get a better view !  I began to notice the roof tops of many houses, I could even see the church that was 4 city blocks away --- I was like floating watching & also noticed the football huddle and my legs sticking out from it were getting smaller...yet, I could still hear my friends talking to me - as if I was right there with them.  I felt no pain & the "humming" noise had stopped...very peaceful as I watched John run up the front steps into my house. 

Soon, I saw my father, then mom, then John - running down the 4 steps and headed towards the corner were we hung out, turn the corner and continue towards us on Park Street.  Soon I was much higher up - it felt like I was on top of the 10 story building.  I could see for miles, all around my part of town.  I heard a siren, off to my right, but the mill was in the way - suddenly I was way high up !!!  Looking down on the 10 story mills roof & barely able to see me or the others in the street...I could see an ambulance coming up Church street & turning left - headed to cross over the bridge & in to our part of town.  As I watched the lights flashing, I began to hear my mothers voice - she was saying "Jeffrey - please don't die" - this distracted me from watching the ambulance headed our way & made me look back, down at the street where they were.  She said it over & over & over, I could hear my father saying it too...soon, all of my friends that were there were saying it too ( I have tears in my eyes as I am typing this...)"Jeffrey - please don't die." 

I was 13 years old, I did not understand what has happened, what I am seeing and why they are saying that...I am watching a movie of something that is happening, yet - don't understand...suddenly, there is a very bright light, like when Uncle Cliff has his camera out...hard to see in the light...there I see her, an Angel, so beautiful - what is happening ?  Am I dying ???  She is pointing for me to look down & to her right - I do & see all of the people in the street, the ambulance is there...she gestures for me to look there again...I hear my mother, father, friends all crying out for me not to die (more tears while typing this...)--- I see them place my body on the stretcher...suddenly I am back in my body and can see everyone around me - I say "don't worry mom, I am not going to die" & everyone there starts to scream and cry and jump up & down.  Today - I guess that's when I returned to my body... I guess I could have gone in either direction...with the Angel, or back.

Mom & dad jumped in with me & we all went to Amsterdam Memorial Hospital...when we arrived, I saw our regular Dr. & a bunch of nurses waiting for us in the emergency entrance.  He checked me over & said to mom & dad - "please come into this office with me."  I was still laying on the stretcher, in the emergency room --- yet, somehow, I could hear them all as if they were standing right next to me - even though I knew they had closed the door & were in a room far from me.  Basically I remember the doctor telling them my injury was too great for our small town hospital to help me.  He said "Larry, (my dad) if you do not take him to Schenectady or Albany Med. --- he is going to die.  They left to room & came to me...dad said we had to leave & I said I heard what the Dr. had said & that we should go Aunt Theresa's hospital in Schenectady ( where she was the head nurse in the operating room.  I rode in the ambulance w/1 person in the back talking to me.  I remember saying that I was sick & going to throw up - he gave me the trash pail & I did...it was all red blood.

The next thing I remember was Aunt Theresa standing over me with her white nurses uniform on (she was crying) I said "don't worry - I will be alright, now that I am here w/you & your Dr's."  They had me laying on a cold stone / steel table & were taking x-rays of my head...they kept sawing "hold this plate, don't move"  left side, right side, on my back (I got dizzy while on my back) - then I said I was going to throw-up again...they gave me one of those stainless steel, u shaped curved pans...the first "hurl" filled it, I dropped it into a waste pail they gave me - I remember 2 or 3 more...all blood...that was it for me. 

The next thing I remember was 32 days later.  After brain surgery, using a medicine flown in from France (1st use in the USA)...I had moments of flashbacks...once I opened my eyes & my entire body was in an "ice bed"  all I saw was my feet - there were IV's going into both ankles.  Another time I looked up & was surrounded by "nuns" - I knew then that I had died & had gone to heaven (blacked out again)...another time I awoke & the Dr. was taking out stitches from my forehead...I was counting each "click" of the scissors - but after "100" I fell asleep / passed out again.  I was in a coma for 32 days.

I grew 5 inches in height over that month - they said it was from the meds - from France.  First time they were used in the USA.  For the next 5 years, I used to go back to my Dr's every 6 months to do blood work & other things it was all reported in the AMA magazine.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No,
At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Uncertain      It was Sunday afternoon & I was leaning my back, shoulders & head against a wooden telephone pole (this was 3rd base - we were playing street baseball) looking up at a beautiful blue sky, a few white puffy clouds, and then I noticed an airplane & wondered where it was headed.  Suddenly things went black / gray and a loud "hum" began to sound in my head...I could not see anything, but felt I was loosing my balance and was falling - the weird part was that I never hit the ground...just kept being dizzy & falling.  It was not until 4 weeks later was I told the batter swung at the ball & let the bat slip & it hit me like a torpedo in the forehead, while leaning against the pole, no where to fall down to.  My head exploded the front & rear damage, popping out 1 of my eyes, and caving in my forehead.  They tell me my nose looked like that of a hog / pig.  At the time, I guessed a wire from the pole had fallen off & I was being electrocuted.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    See # 3 above.

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:            I was only 13 life went on   you know.  To this day I can "see and hear like it happened yesterday." I have an art pad & have drawn all of what I have told you in words.

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     please see # 3.

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     please see #3.

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

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            see # 3.

Did you pass into or through a tunnel or enclosure?          No
Did you see a light?           Yes     see # 3...w/my Angel.

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Yes     An Angel (see #3.)

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes     see # 3.  Hearing what the Dr. was telling my parents...in a room far away from me.

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?           Yes            see # 3.

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes
            see # 3.

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Yes     There seems to be some "sexual" prowess - that has followed me since then.  I have researched "frontal lobe" injuries in male adolescents & there does seem to be some truth in prior researcher - from my point of view...sex is very important to me.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     Parents. They said to be happy w/my recover & to keep it "between us."  Which is what I have done for over 40 years.  Mom has passed, dad is okay, but very old (87) and does not understand what I am telling you about.  My son thinks "it's cool."  (What does that mean???)

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    No
Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?    I liked seeing the Angel.  It helped me & my belief in the faith...it also made think that I was returned to my body - for a reason.  Was it to have "my son?"

Touch the lives of my school students ?  Adults I encounter ?  Why was I returned & for what purpose ???

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real
            see # 3.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real
            see # 3.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           No

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?            No
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?        Yes.  When they replaced my forehead with this plate - they used a thread like material to sew it into place with my skull.  The x-rays remind me of a "spiral notebook, you could buy @ Wal-Mart.  I have 1 of these on each of my temples, going vertically.  On occasion - I do have this same bad dream.  I am blowing my nose & a piece of wire comes out one of my nostrils...I began to pull it out & a pile starts to form on the floor.  I generally wake up about then.

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         Yes     There are more things I would like to share - they just didn't show up w/your questions.

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire:
            Follow up questions about my life after this experiences...say for the next year, maybe the next 5 years...?  A life time follow up ?  8-)