A doctor, who was seeing me for the first time, just skimmed over my chart, and saw I had high cholesterol, and since he also was taking over my Mom's care too, he knew she had to have coronary bypasses of five arteries. What apparently he didn't notice in his concern about my cholesterol levels was I was also on blood pressure medication.
He recommended a Niacin supplement to help lower my cholesterol more. Well it also lowers blood pressure. Between that and the drug I was prescribed previously, it lowered my BP so low, that I collapsed on my way out of a restaurant onto a frozen sidewalk.
Luckily a paramedic who had just gotten off duty was on his way into the restaurant, and he heard my Mom and sister yelling for help. When he got to me, he told them I had no pulse, and was not breathing.
While all this was going on, I was in my mind laying in a field of sunflowers. The sky was the most beautiful I had ever seen. I saw the sun and I could look directly at it with no glare or burning sensation. Then I felt myself rising off the ground towards it. The words, "I'm going home," popped into my head, and I felt more loved, and more at peace than I ever had. I wanted to go.
But then I felt my head being tilted back, and my mother screaming my name, and shouting don't leave me, and my older sister, saying please stay with us. I gasped, and was back just as the paramedic was about to start CPR.
The ambulance came and they took me to the ER, where at first they thought I had a coronary, but when they read my medication list over the phone to the cardiologist he figured out what happened. The morning nurse told me I coded four times in the night. She said take that Niacin, bury it in kitty litter, toss it in the trash, and never take it again, no matter who tells you to.
Prior to that experience I was afraid of dying, but I am not really anymore, although occasionally I think, I hope I haven't done anything since to change where I am going. 🤣
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