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After many years of drinking due to the intense stress of my career, I eventually developed cirrhosis. While on the liver transplant list, the ammonia buildup from my failing system sent me into a coma with intestinal blockage and numerous other complications. I was sent to the local hospital and then transported to Tampa General Hospital. I was placed in a deep coma while the physicians attempted to figure out what to do. Eventually, the doctor told my wife and mother that I would never leave the room I was in. I was later told that I was clinically dead on at least two occasions. My last memory prior to the experience was trying to attend my daughter's school open house, and not feeling well, so we went home and I went to sleep. I never woke up.
I had been having heart-related episodes for many years before my near-death experience, but on August 12, 2018, I knew something was very wrong. I had already been feeling terrible the day before, with severe fatigue, headache, and what I now believe may have been stroke symptoms.
I went to the Mills Peninsula Hospital Emergency Room because I was having terrible pain in my side. It was a septic gall bladder that required immediate surgery.
On the night of 15 January 2002, when I was 14 years old, my house in Gollapudi, Vijayawada, India, was attacked by robbers. I fought them initially, but they overpowered me and injured me severely. I suffered a head injury which caused an internal blood clot outside the brain. Two hours later, I was taken to Charita Sri Hospital, where the duty doctor identified the seriousness of the head injury. I was prepared for an emergency operation within a short period of time.
During the operation, I found myself outside my body, watching the entire procedure from the ceiling of the Operating Theatre. I could see the doctors working on my head and body. There was no fear — only an observing awareness.
I was a division 1 athlete my freshman year of college, but had quit at the end of our season in mid-February. From mid-February to mid-May (after I quit and before I came home from school), I completely ran myself into the ground. I developed an eating disorder, I was running/exercising every day, excessively going out/drinking, and I was putting insane pressure on myself academically so that I could transfer schools. When I got home in mid-May I was completely overworked, burnt out, and exhausted.
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