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Simon Bown, Verified Near-Death Experiences, London 2025, Chapter 22: Stephanie Arnold
Verified Near-Death Experiences, Chapter 22, Stephanie Arnold, 2025
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Stephanie Arnold, 41, experienced an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) during an emergency C-section in 2013. She had strong premonitions throughout her pregnancy that something would go wrong during delivery, repeatedly warning medical staff. Her heart flatlined for 37 seconds during the procedure, requiring 60 units of blood and emergency resuscitation.
During her cardiac arrest, Stephanie found herself above the operating room, observing the medical team working on her body. She saw Dr. Julie Levitt, who appeared frozen, and Dr. Higgins calling out that it was an AFE. From her out-of-body perspective, she witnessed specific details including Dr. Nicole Higgins standing at her feet rather than at her head. She then traveled to the labor and delivery room where she saw her daughters playing - Tessie asking Adina to listen to a story while Adina played with a blood pressure cuff pretending to be Doc McStuffins. She visited her husband Jonathan in the ICU watching her unconscious form and heard him whisper "I can't live without you." In the spiritual realm, Stephanie encountered deceased relatives including her Aunt Betty who handed her a cola, her grandmother Rachel, and Uncle Marvin who told her "I've always known you to be a fighter." She witnessed her father in his kitchen tearfully asking the deceased Uncle Marvin to look after her. A being of light told her she couldn't return because her body was too damaged, but after Stephanie pleaded to return for her baby, the being sought permission from a higher source, sending beams of light upward. Stephanie was clinically dead for 37 seconds before being resuscitated. Through hypnotic regression with therapist Linda Burns, she later recalled these events in detail. Multiple medical professionals confirmed her observations, and her uncle's cigarette presence explained her mysterious pregnancy craving for cigarettes she had never understood.
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Documented cardiac arrest for 37 seconds with monitoring, AFE diagnosis, required 60 units blood
Multiple specific observations: daughters playing Doc McStuffins, Dr. Higgins position, father in kitchen
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