My second near-death experience occurred a year later on
April 1, 1998. The circumstances about this situation occurred over a long
period of time. I have a condition called Factor V Leiden which is a congenital
blood clotting condition that I didn’t know about at the time. I had been
having significant hormonal issues that had been going on for over 10 years
when I decided to go to the doctor. Unfortunately I chose to go to a doctor
that did not know much about female problems or hormonal issues and just put me
on birth control pills to “deal with” one of the symptoms I was experiencing at
the time. Birth control pills, it just so happens, can be deadly to someone
with Factor V Leiden. As a result of being on birth control pills for two
months (with no resolution of my symptoms by the way), I developed a
significant DVT (deep vein thrombosis/blood clot) in my left leg. After going
to a new doctor at a different hospital in Fort Worth, I was told I had pulled
a muscle in my leg. Over the course of two more weeks, my leg blew up like a
balloon (3x its original size). After going back to the doctor, they performed
an ultrasound, confirmed massive blood clots in my leg and I was admitted to
the first long two week stay in the hospital. This was when I called my mother
with my non-April Fool’s joke about being admitted to the hospital.
Unbeknownst to me, I had suffered a PE (pulmonary embolism )
about 3 days before that, according to my doctor, that should have killed me.
While working at my job in Arlington as an Marketing Account Manager, I had
suddenly experienced a moment of severe pain in my chest where I had the very
clear feeling that my heart stopped (like 5 seconds…very short) followed by a
two-minute period where I felt like I couldn’t breathe. The moment passed just
as quickly as it happened. I didn’t feel very well for the rest of the day but
I still went to the gym (yes, I went to work out!) and got short of breathe
while doing water aerobics and doing 20 minutes on the elliptical. I decided to
go home early. I made the appointment to
see my doctor the next morning for April 1st.
My near death experience didn’t happen until April 1st
when I was confined to my hospital bed. I wasn’t allowed to get up for fear
that the blood clot in my leg would break loose and go through my heart and
into my lung causing my death. What we didn’t know at the time was that had
already happened! I was technically feeling fine that night but I had
significant fear come upon me that night that forces in the spiritual realm
wanted my death (and these were not friendly forces, people!). People get weird
when you start using words like demons or demonic spirits, or demonic angels.
But, well, that’s what they were! But in the midst of that fear and
overwhelming sense of demonic oppression, Jesus came to me for the 2nd
time in my life. He appeared in the corner of my hospital room and told me that
I would not die and that I was anointed to speak and teach His Word.” That was
it. He was gone. Over the next two weeks, we discovered the PE. The doctor told
my mom that he thought that the reason I clotted was because I had cancer which
caused huge fear in my mom. But I already knew that I didn’t have cancer. I
just knew. Don’t ask me how. I didn’t find out until I was pregnant with
Daniel, almost 12 years later, that the reason for my clotting was because of
Factor V Leiden.
So what about my visit to Heaven? The story concludes with Part 3...
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