A woman who narrowly escaped death on two separate occasions has opened up about her experiences on the brink of life.
Deborah Prum’s first brush with death occurred in the 1980s when she went into premature labor with her son. This situation led to severe health complications, including extremely high blood pressure, low blood cell counts, liver issues, and seizures.
As medical staff worked tirelessly to save her and her baby, Deborah claims to have experienced an out-of-body sensation, finding herself observing the scene from above, without feeling any pain or emotion.
“All of a sudden the essence of my being was in a corner of the room looking down at everything,” the Virginia mother recalled in a Tales of Resilience YouTube video.
“I really didn’t feel much of anything at that point,” she continued. “I felt totally dispassionate, just observing the situation — and then, nothing.”
Deborah was critically ill, so much so that she was induced into a three-day coma as her body’s systems began to fail.
Thankfully, despite being on the edge, she pulled through.
Two decades later, Deborah faced death again in a serious car accident.
While she and her husband were driving through an intersection, she noticed headlights approaching them.
“Next thing you know, I’m in this yellow space as if I’d dropped into a VAT of yellow pudding,” she expressed. “I was completely surrounded by this kind of yellow glow.”
Similar to her first near-death experience, she felt detached from herself but was enveloped in a sense of deep peace and quiet joy.
“I still feel guilty about it but I didn’t want to come back,” she confessed. “I don’t know where it was but I didn’t want to come back. Then I sort-of reluctantly came back to this crazy scene of my husband’s glasses broken, blood coming down his face, and […] he’s really pale.”
At one point, she recalled feeling a man’s hand holding hers, but her husband didn’t see anyone doing so.
“That was always the mysterious part,” Deborah reflected on this aspect.
Her recovery from the crash took several months, but she eventually returned to full health.