If we do good, we will see Heaven when we die, if not, the Hell awaits us, at least this is something certain religions believe to be true when it comes to the concept of afterlife. Of course, this isn’t something everyone is convinced is true and the truth is that we will never know for sure what happens to our soul after we die.
The hot topic of life after death has been around for so long, and people still have divided opinions about it.
The thought of dying is a scary one, but we are all aware that it is something inevitable. I believe that people convince themselves in the existence of afterlife because that helps accept the concept of death more easily.
Victoria Thomas, now 41, went through a rather unique experience when she was “dead” for 17 minutes after collapsing on the floor during gym session when she was 35.
According to her, she began feeling dizzy after a weightlifting session, told her friend she didn’t feel right, and then suddenly collapsed.
Thomas went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance arrived shortly after, and paramedics started performing CPR but as minuted went by, they believed Thomas’ heart stopped for good.
Recounting what was happening during the 17 minutes until her heart started beating again, Thomas said, “When it happened, it went black and there was nothing, then I became aware of looking down on my body.
“I was floating near the roof and was looking down at myself on the gym floor. My first thought was that my legs looked really fat. And when I looked at a photo of myself taken just minutes before I collapsed, I could see that my legs were actually swollen.
“I didn’t see a light, or feel peaceful, I was just watching myself, and I could see some yellow machines around me.”
Eventually, her heart started beating again and she was rushed to Bristol Royal Infirmary where she remained in a coma for three days and was given a defibrillator to restart her heart if it went into cardiac arrest once more — and it did.
Over the next few months, this healthy woman’s heart stopped a couple more times, with the defibrillator shocking it back into rhythm each time.
“I went back to playing netball three weeks after it happened, with my defibrillator. It was a shock whenever it went off, but it allowed me to carry on living my normal life, which I was so grateful for,” she told Metro.
In 2021, Thomas got pregnant, and no matter how happy that made her, the pregnancy put pressure on her heart and she started going into cardiac arrest regularly.
Finally, at 24 weeks pregnant, doctors told her what was causing the issues with her heart. It turned out Thomas suffered from Danon disease, a rare genetic disease.
“When I read the letter from the genetics team telling me what I had, I was 24 weeks pregnant with Tommy and I was so shocked, I couldn’t take it in.
“The doctors wanted to deliver Tommy at just 24 weeks, but I persuaded them to let me hang on a few more weeks. If he had been born at 24 weeks then he may not have survived.
“But by the time I was 30 weeks I couldn’t breathe properly because of the fluid build up around my body, so I had to have an emergency caesarean,” she told Metro.
Tommy was delivered as a healthy boy, but Thomas’ heart was damaged even further. Doctors told her it only worked at 11% and she was given just a couple of months to live.
Luckily, she was placed on a list and had a heart transplanted to her successfully at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
“I’d been in hospital since Tommy’s first birthday in October and now I was finally home with him. I couldn’t believe it,” she told the publication.
Today, she is back to full strength and plays netball four times a week.
Her life story is truly a remarkable one.
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