Unexplainable medical mystery part 1 in series

About Nurse Hadley:

Hadley Vlahos resides outside of New Orleans with her husband and three children. With eight years of experience as a registered nurse, including six years devoted to hospice care, she has gained profound insights into the field of healthcare. Online, she is affectionately known as "Nurse Hadley," where she shares heartfelt stories from her experiences as a hospice nurse.

Beyond her nursing career, Hadley has achieved literary success as the author of the instant New York Times bestseller, "The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments" published by Ballantine/PRH.

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[alidaroxana]

I worked bedside as an ICU nurse for 5 years. It didn’t matter if my patients were unconscious, I always talked to them and told them everything I was doing to/ for them. One Friday I came off of a 3 day stretch. I had taken care of the same lady who was on a vent. Monday I came back in and she was sitting up in the bed, no more breathing tube. I introduced myself to her as her nurse. She said to me “I know who you are.” I said “you do?” She told me she remembered my voice 🥹

[nancyb.]

This happened to me. I was taking care of a patient that coded in the middle of my shift. She made it. Transferred her to icu and then fast forward a few months later, she's back for other health issues and when she saw me, she said she remembered me and saw me doing cpr on her. She said she was watching everyone from the ceiling. She thanked me and left me speechless.

[jomas]

My husband had a major heart attack. He finished his work shift convincing himself he pulled a muscle but after a while he decided to drive himself to the ER. Just as he got there he started having what they call a widow maker heart attack. He managed to get into the ER and that was it. He said he left his body and was above watching them trying so hard to revive him. He felt no pain. The doctor was going to stop but there was a nurse that begged him one more time. He said that was the shock that literally slammed him back into his body and the pain was back. He recovered well and we have some more time together thanks to that wonderful nurse!

[savannah]

My aunt isn't a nurse but my dad passed in 2013. A few years later she said she had a dream my dad was trying to wake her up, telling her to "Go check on dad." She got to the bathroom just in time to see my grandfather trying to get his heart medicine before having a heart attack. He's still here with us ❤

[MsBTmom]

Retired OR nurse - Occasionally, it very difficult or impossible to wean someone off the heart/lung machine. Sometimes the best you can do is wait. We had a a patient who had one last chance and while we waited, we remembered it was technically Christmas morning. People in stressful jobs tend to release stress in odd ways so, we begin to sing Christmas songs.
Our patient lived and the Anesthesiologist reported back to us that she “remembered angels singing” then named the songs we were singing.

[georgecurtis]

My wife and I were in a bad accident. My wife died 5 times. At one point she remembers looking down at my sister and my mom discussing how to tell me she died. It's now been 22 years since then and we are both still alive and together.

[justmombeauty]

I sat with my sister as they removed her off the ventilator. Reading these stories are comforting knowing she most likely knew I was there.

[FantasmagoriaAhoy]

I have a friend who was struck by lightning and in a coma for MONTHS... People came and talked to him every day. He remembered absolutely everything when he woke up...

[laurenchamberlain]

The comment section of Nurse Hadleys videos is always a beautiful place. Everyone leaning on or encouraging each other. Bless this wonderful woman for taking the time to share this and the beautiful ripple effect it has

[snteag]

This hospice nurse and her baby are going to have so many guardian angels 😇

[jennykonrath]

I was in a coma for a few months.. Critical illness myopathy neuropathy.
They told my mom I was " giving up"
My Ma in a desperate state started screaming at me.
Yelling at me how I had to fight for my baby.
He was 4 months when I fell ill.
I REMEMBER THIS!! I remember security or someone making her leave.Cause well she WAS yelling at a person in a coma..😜
I HEARD HER!
I woke up from the coma a couple hours later.💓
SHE saved my LIFE!😘

[FoxierCreative]

My grandmother was very Catholic, but explained she had an out of body experience while in surgery. She said she floated above her body and she saw the nurse, but not only the nurse physically, she saw her soul too and said it was so beautiful.

[sarahbellebradburn]

I coded during an emergency operation on my spine after a previous accident & a serious CSF leak. I remember leaving my body and seeing the surgeons working on me. I nearly crossed over before I realized someone else I didn’t recognize in the room, who wasn’t scrubbed out, could see me out of body. He shook his head no and I woke up in anesthesia recovery. A few days later I asked my mom about the man, in case she knew if someone had come in during the ordeal. I thought it may have been a specialist, but she assured me I’d seen her Dad when I coded. He’d passed a few years before my birth I’d never seen a picture of him not ill before. It was the wildest thing, she’d seen his initials on three cars when she rushed me to the ER too. First time she’d noticed or seen them since his passing. He was just there to let us know it wasn’t my time.

[jessicanielsen]

This is a truly lovely comment section, guys. These stories are amazing. Thank you.

[nsloane]

All nurses, particularly those who work in ICUs or with other severely ill patients, are THE BEST! They were also extremely kind to my sister and me as we experiencing my mother’s passing! They nurtured us, made sure we were eating and helped sooth us through the entire 3 day “event”. Each one of them was like an angel to every family member who came to say goodbye to my mom. I can’t praise nurses enough!!

[marikiemarie]

It happens. We moved into a house when I was about 14. We were all upset about having to move. It was rushed and definitely not the house we wanted. So our moods were a little bitter to say the least. We threw boxes here and there and kinda half way moved in and never really settled. But we misplaced all of out birth and medical records. My mom wasn't able to get us in school and definitely couldn't afford to replace 6 birth certificates at $55 each, 6 social security cards and passports. After 8 weeks I dreamed of a man walking up to me with a dog... the dog talked and said "those important papers you need are in a box that fell behind the tall cabinets in the garage.".
I woke up at 6am waking up my mom to tell her. She was like "we don't even have cabinets in the garage". Then she remembered the movers told her that they put stuff behind a cabinet wall. They were there!!!

[kimm]

I went into anaphylactic shock as a result of medication. Luckily, I was at a medical facility. The last thing I remember was the Doctor screaming orders and saying "we are losing breath sounds". At that point, I watched them saying there were no breath sounds, my throat had closed completely. A nurse had to run down the hall to get some medications and other medical devices.

To make a long story short, when I came to, I told them every move they made. Including the nurse running to get the supplies and they weren't in the right room they were supposed to be in, and how she was frantically searching. I told them the room that the nurse found everything. As I was talking, I realized by their shocked faces, the veracity of what I was saying. They began to ask questions and I answered everything accurately. Needless to say, I was referred to a Study of people who report these types of events. I still remember everything to this day. Every person, every moment, all their actions.

[FashionandLoveBeauty]

Had a patient that was unresponsive. Glasgow was 3/4. Low hard breathes, bradycardic, not reactive to stimuli at all. Visits came. Son didn’t want in. She didn’t react to husband, daughter, grandchildren. I talked to the son. They hadn’t seen each other for months cause he was in another country. I said he should probably say goodbye, at least. The image of her wasn’t the best as her heart was giving, but still, I believe people “go” more peacefully if they have said their goodbyes, having watched it happen multiple times.
He agreed, came in, talked to her and she yelled out for him. Opened her eyes, stretched her arms, hugged him. It was the single most core shaking thing I have felt, still to this day. She was practically dead and then just by hearing him. Her husband and son just fell to the floor in tears. I had to stop taking care of a patient in the same room to step out and breathe cause I got the wind knocked out of me. I still am shocked by that and am bawling writing this, remembering how it was.

[dirtbrat]

I worked a code on a guy one graveyard shift and by the time we would all get to the elevator down the hall, he would code again. This happened 5x in a row that night.
By the time I came in the next night, since he was in such bad shape the night before, I didn’t expect to see him.
To my surprise, I saw that he was still in his room so I went by to see how he was doing. He was sitting up in bed, looked great and seemed perfectly fine.
I stepped in and started to introduce myself (I had never met him prior to reporting to the code) when all of a sudden, the guy smiles and says “I remember you!” I said “oh you do?” He said “your name is and your friend was the big guy, you were the ones that kept working on me (we were the ones doing chest compressions at first)”. He then said “I like you two, you made me laugh while I was watching, it was like a scene out of MASH” and smiled really big. Then proceeded to say “thank you both for not giving up so I could stay with my family.”
The day nurses said that he told them the exact time he coded every time because he said every time he “came back” he looked at the clock on the wall that was infront of him. ALL the times that he quoted….matched the notes in his chart!
That guy went on to fully recover and be discharged.
That was 25 yrs ago when I first started in the medical field and one of my first codes.
Goes to prove that our lives don’t “end” just because we don’t have a pulse.
One of the most memorable, freaky and most of all, beautiful things I have ever experienced in my career 🥰💫

[kylamarie]

Love this! Took care of a targeted temperature management patient whose prognosis was incredibly poor. I took care of her for several days and had a few days off work. When I returned, she was somewhat miraculously awake and off the vent. I introduced myself and she said she immediately recognized my voice and thanked me for several specific things I'd done, like braiding her hair or comforting her husband when she lost her pulse. It was beyond wild because everything she mentioned was 100% correct. She even quoted me verbatim. I've never ever forgotten that