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Doctor and his dying patient share a vision of her father and childhood pet dog
Identifier
014523
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
There is no indication as to why the Doctor had the vision, it may simply be he was exhausted, but this is not stated.
A description of the experience
The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences - Dr Penny Sartori
I often find that once people know about my research they tell me about experiences they have had. I was recently chatting to a doctor who had this to say:
One of the patients in my GP practice was a lady who was dying of cancer. Over the months I made several home visits and I got to know her and her husband well. One day her husband showed me a photograph of his wife when she was about nine years old and standing next to her was her father and a big black dog; it was a very old photograph.
On the day that the lady died, I was present.
As she died, I had an overwhelming feeling that everything was going to be all right, I just knew that her father and the black dog had come to meet her.
It was a very strange experience for me that I just can't explain. I have over 18 years' experience of being a doctor and have looked after many dying patients. I have never before or since had such an overwhelming feeling with any other patient. It was a nice feeling - as if the lady was safe and that she was being happily reunited with her father and her childhood pet dog.