"A dental technician convinced me to get a panoramic X-ray that included my whole head. She took the X-ray, then kept the image displayed above me when she left the room. The panoramic aspect of the shot had distorted my mouth into a wide, toothy grin. I felt as if this future iteration of me carried a message: "Hello dearie, this is where you are headed.""
"The midwife was fumbling with a catheter when the obstetrician yelled, "Get her into the O.R. now!" Then, I found myself, or the essence of myself, floating in the corner of the labor room, near the ceiling, looking down on the scene, as I was rushed to the operating room and they tried to resuscitate me and save both me and my son. Weirdly, I felt no emotion."
A patient underwent a panoramic dental X-ray that revealed a skull-like image, prompting a visceral confrontation with mortality. The patient experienced two near-death events with different characteristics. The first occurred during early labor with stroke-level blood pressure, low platelets, liver dysfunction, and seizure activity, which led to an emergency cesarean. The patient described an out-of-body sensation observing resuscitation efforts. The newborn spent about two weeks in neonatal intensive care while the patient remained in a medically induced coma for three days and faced months of ongoing health issues. The patient later recognized similarities to commonly reported near-death features.
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