Gun-shot NDE

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Story type: NDE
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Source: Form Submission

In 1976 when I was 13 years old, I was accidentally shot in the chest with a .38 by a friend who's mom had told him "this gun's never loaded". So, we were playing around with it when it discharged point-blank, the bullet entering right below my sternum. It was a ghastly wound - the gun contained hollow-point bullets, and my liver and right lung were torn apart.

While in the hospital, I was bleeding out as fast as they could pump blood into me (liver wounds are like that). It was during the second or third operation during that first night that I seemed to regain consciousness, lift out of my body, and rise toward the ceiling. I noticed the overhead fluorescent lights coming very close, then I turned over and I could see all the doctors and nurses working on my body, but it was pretty dark - not a lot of details other than lots of blood.

The whole experience didn't last very long, but I am convinced that this was a NDE. I later learned that my heart had stopped that night while they were operating on me, and I was lucky enough to have it restarted.

Readers: treasure your lives! Everything happens for a reason, I think, and for some reason I am here today to tell this story.

***If you have kids and guns in the house, either lock the guns up securely, or else teach your kids how to handle them - show them how to check if it's loaded. Let them fire the weapon once, and it may scare the crap out of them when they understand what it can do! Or better yet, attend a gun safety class with them, so they know what to do when they come across an "unloaded" gun.***