Catherine Hayward's Page: http://ndeaccounts.com/near-death-experiences-stories/catherine-haywards-nde-hodgkins-disease-cured/ In 1970 I was diagnosed and told I had Hodgkin's Disease and at the time I was unable to have any treatment because I was pregnant and both medicine and radiation treatment were not appropriate at that time. I was 27, critically ill, terminally ill. I began getting weak, very weak in June, 1973 and called my best friend Ann who took me to the hospital. Then it happened I was laying on my side and I looked over at the heart monitor and the line went straight across. The next thing I knew I was standing over my body looking down at the form in the bed. I watched the nurse beside the bed adjusting the wires and I was fascinated by it. I kept wanting to tap her on the shoulder and tell her that I wasn't there. Then I saw this team of nurses and this little green thing on wheels coming toward the bed and they were in such a hurry it really scared me. So, I turned and stepped into a tunnel I guess you'd call it because it definitely had sides and I definitely felt confined and I started moving upward and felt exhilarated but when I got to the end of the tunnel there was this light that was so bright I thought it would hurt my eyes. Then I saw him about 100 to 150 ahead of me and it was the figure that I knew to be God. I said, "Please don't make me go back, please let me stay here with you." I sounded like a spoiled child and I was really really hanging on and finally he just took me and firmly but gently pushed me away from him and said. "You must go back there is a task that you have to do for me and if you do this you will come to me." and then he turned and he walked away and I was furious.. The doctor that was standing over me said we put the tube past her lungs into her stomach and apparently they were pumping air into my stomach instead of into my lungs and they said that's what was causing all this tremendous pain I was experiencing as I was coming to but I knew it wasn't that I knew I was resisting coming back in the body. I felt a quiver running up and down my body and I felt rage and I felt like I didn't belong there. So, there I was and not speaking and all of a sudden the line went straight again. I saw this nurse come running in and she took the portable oxygen tank down and I watched all this and I watched her put the mask on me even though the machine..the line went straight. I still saw this I saw the bed being pushed down the corridor towards the intensive care unit. That's the last thing I remember seeing before I left my body again. I was immediately in the light. I was immediately in God's presence again and he just took me in his arms and very gently said, "Do you understand." and I said, "Yes, I do." and then I came back into the body with just the easiest breathe. I signed myself out of the hospital, I left the hospital and I haven't been back.

• published: 05 Oct 2013
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