Today on the exam room. It was September 22nd, 2016. I had just finished my morning

patients and I was running behind and I remember hastily rushing to the stairs and I had to go down and I remember

planting my first leg in the stair and a quiver and I thought what the heck's wrong?

But I knew I had to get to the boardroom so I kept on going down and I was kind of scared.

I'm thinking, what's wrong?

And leading up to this, I was having these multiple passing out episodes.

And so I was worried that something else was going to happen.

And so I got to the boardroom, tried to open the door, couldn't open the door,

finally got into the boardroom, everyone's sitting there so serious.

I would usually make like this very light-hearted comment, but was like mmm I'm going to just stay on track.

So I took my seat and I was so weak I couldn't even control the mouse and within a few seconds that was my last conscious memory.

And you know I remember being in this place of complete quietude.

I had a four minute near death experience.

I remember my entire body being this feeling being enveloped in love and harmony and it was as if the hands of God like I felt like this this vast

presence was holding me.

It was so beautiful to be able to describe and I was more awake in this moment of what they clinically defined as death than most people probably experience in a lifetime.

And it was as if my non-beating heart

had this direct connection to this very hopeful soul.

It's so hard to describe, but the one thing I would say is I was in no hurry to leave that place.

Yeah. It was so welcoming and love and peaceful, but then this huge wave of energy came through my body and it was kind of preceded by this huge thump.

This thump that actually lifted me up to where I was sitting up and I regained consciousness.

And one of the electrophysiologists here at Mayo Clinic Rochester

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