Near Death Experiences?

I have never had a patient that has had a near death experience (that I'm aware of). Are you asking only about patients? My mother had a near death experience, I don't want to go into the long story if that is not what you are looking for, but if you are interested in hearing it just let me know.

Try Hospice Nursing........I mean go to hospices also...

OK. So here is what happened to my mom. About 4 years ago her and my dad were out one afternoon going to antique shops down in the city (St. Louis). She stepped off the curb and got hit by a car. She said she looked both ways (she's only 54) and there were no cars coming. He came around the corner that fast. My dad still regrets not holding her hand to cross the street like he usually does (my husband does this also). The driver had no license and no insurance and was speeding VERY fast. He hit her so hard that she flew up over the car. She was unconscious. She was rushed by ambulance to the nearest hospital. She suffered multiple broken ribs, one of her hips, her pelvis, one of her tibia's, and one of her ulna's. She was in bad shape and we (my dad and all six of us kids) thought she might die. She came out of surgery ok and stayed for rehab for a few weeks. Came home in a wheelchair. Soon progressed to a cane. Now she's like new. But this is the thing. She told me that she doesn't remember being hit. But she didn't understand why she was looking down at my father in the street with her crying. She saw him call out to the owner of the antique shop to call 911. She remembers seeing her eyeglasses crumpled up and bloody lying on the street. She said didn't know what was happening, why she was "looking down" at herself and my father, and mostly she remembers how sad she felt for my father because he was so scared and crying. The next thing she remembers is waking up after surgery and that is when we told her she was hit by a car. Kinda cool, huh? I hope this helps.

She views it as a spiritual experience. She does not believe in life after death. She doesn't tell alot of people about the experience, though. No probs with electric. The only prob. she still has is the dizziness because the impact broke the little bones in her ears.
oops. I so did not mean to hit the laughing smiley. I meant to hit this one.