Have you ever had a NDE near death experience ?

It was in 1998 when, I think, I had near-death-experience. The reason was due to severe dehydration because of diarrhea almost every 15 minutes for about 3 hours. The cause of the diarrhea was amoebiasis. Because of the severe dehydration, I was having cramps all over my body. When I was rushed to the emergency room of the hospital I could hardly stand or move by myself. My voice was just a whisper by then. Stomach pain was almost unbearable. They put dextrose on me while waiting for my turn to be examined. It seemed too awfully long before I was checked up and wheeled to a ward while waiting for a private room to be available.

It was at the ward when things became worse. Hospital services are so terrible that there were even no nurses to attend to me. I can not recall the length of time I was in the ward and had to go several times to the toilet because of diarhea. By that time, two dextrose bottles have been infused. Still suffering from cramps, I had to carry the stands of the bottles to the toilet each time. The point came when I was too weak to get up from bed and go to the toilet. The last time I tried, the dextrose tubes got yanked out of my arms. Blood was squirting all around me. Had it not been for other kind souls in the ward, I might not be typing in this article. It was only then that doctors and nurses came to attend to me.

I was so weak and could hardly talk but the thought of dying never entered my mind. The last thing I recall was when a surgeon asked me if I was willing to have a "cut down" because they could not find my veins for infusion. He said my blood pressure of 60/40 was too low and that was the reason. Before I passed out or went unconscious, my wife was asked to sign a document for consent on the "cut down". I don't know how long the procedure went and nobody told me. All my wife told me was I looked so old and my face looked like just bone and skin. My eyes were deep in their sockets. No, I did not see any bright lights or a tunnel or a feeling of separation from my body. What I remember only was first feeling myself being wheeled on a corridor to a private room. My eyes opened slowly, I don't know why I just couldn't open them normally. Some people who heard my story say it was not a near death experience. Others say it is and say that I did not experience what others may have in their near death because I never thought of dying.

N.B. Cut down is the term for a surgeon who makes an incision to find a large vein where dextrose or blood could be infused. It was done on the inside part of my upper right arm.