Man who cheated death twice will 'never forget what he saw' in his last moments

Pete Mackenzie Hodge felt his beingness slipping distant connected 2 occasions, and his experiences taught him the worth of beingness and enjoying each moment. He recalls his other-worldly experiences

A dada who survived 2 near-death experiences has shared his penetration into 1 of the astir profound questions asked by humans - What truly happens erstwhile we die? Pete Mackenzie Hodge is among those to person had a adjacent brushwood with the afterlife.

Now a accidental gathering with 1 of his heroes - drama fable Steve Coogan - has inspired him to pen his inspirational relationship of beingness and adjacent decease successful a caller book. The 38-year-old archetypal came adjacent to the brink successful 2008 aft graduating from university.

He had conscionable completed his studies and was 22-year-old erstwhile helium was diagnosed with bone cancer. “I went from playing drums and shot to that diagnosis," helium said.

“At the time, that was a large daze for myself and my family,” He spent astir of the twelvemonth successful and retired of infirmary getting chemotherapy.

He underwent country which swapped his bones for titanium, but conscionable a twelvemonth later, his assemblage began rejecting the overseas materials and helium ended up successful a captious condition. Fighting for his beingness successful the intensive attraction unit, Pete had to marque the hard determination to amputate his leg.

“I didn’t privation to dice truthful went done with the amputation,” helium added. “It was supra the genu and past I went backmost to The Christie for much chemotherapy.”

Pete had to larn however to locomotion each implicit again done an aggravated physio regime. “I was grateful to beryllium alive,” helium added. “It sounds similar a truly hard determination to make, which it was, but it was specified a melodramatic clip that I didn’t consciousness similar I had the clip oregon abstraction to deliberation astir it all.

"All I knew was I didn’t privation to die. By losing the leg, I would person a 2nd accidental astatine life. I look backmost and think, 'thank God I did marque that decision'.

“I wouldn’t person gone connected to conscionable my woman and person my girl otherwise. So galore blessings came retired of specified a catastrophic situation.”

While Pete made a betterment and went connected to set to his caller mode of life, helium tin callback having an other-worldly acquisition portion warring for his beingness successful hospital, reports the MEN.

He was successful the intensive attraction portion erstwhile helium glanced astatine the infirmary curtain by his furniture and saw a Casio ticker look with minutes and seconds ticking by. He present believes that timepiece was a countdown to the extremity of his life. “I truly judge we’re each this vigor and we’re each carbon,” helium added.

“I deliberation what happens erstwhile we permission this enactment is that vigor conscionable gets recycled successful different realm. Although our carnal bodies cease to exist, that vigor lives on.”

And it’s not the lone clip Pete has had a unusual brushwood during a near-death acquisition – his 2nd coming erstwhile helium fell earnestly sick during the pandemic. The dada became severely unwell aft processing a mysterious bacterial corruption successful his lungs which resulted successful pneumonia and sepsis.

Fighting for his beingness again, Pete tin callback leaving his assemblage and seeing himself lifeless successful his infirmary bed.

“I near my assemblage successful the furniture and what I saw determination was my psyche ascending,” Pete, a erstwhile drummer successful Manchester set Inego, added. “I could spot my carnal assemblage connected the furniture still, which was a truly profound experience.

“I saw a plethora of colour and stained-glass windows. My sedation was accrued and it did thing to bring maine around.”

But Pete said the acquisition wasn’t scary. “It wasn’t a, ‘Oh my God I’m dying, I don’t privation to die,’ it was axenic acceptance and axenic surrender. It was a truly magical moment, but evidently I’m truthful relieved and grateful to beryllium here.”

He was placed into a coma for 13 days, going to slumber successful 2020 and waking up successful 2021. Doctors told him helium was highly fortunate to beryllium alive.

“All the doctors person said I’m a precise fortunate man. I shouldn’t beryllium present but I am. It feels similar I’m the luckiest feline successful the world but besides 1 of the unluckiest.

“I’m a steadfast believer that with each atrocious happening that is brought to us, there’s an astonishing blessing attached to it oregon a 2nd accidental astatine life. The triumph of surviving each that is rather a euphoric happening to spell through.”

Pete has since announced his archetypal published book, Delirium Diaries, which details his 2nd improbable endurance successful the ICU followed by the play of heavy psychosis. It is acceptable to beryllium released connected October 28 and is available for pre-order now.

Inspired to enactment pen to insubstantial aft a accidental gathering with histrion and comedian Steve Coogan, Delirium Diaries explores the opposition betwixt the comfortableness of location and the sterile infirmary environment, sharing tales of emotion and resilience portion emphasising the powerfulness of sheer grit and determination successful defying the odds.

“The axenic panic of facing the 2nd adjacent decease acquisition of my young beingness is thing that I wanted to transmission into helping others,” Pete added.

“It happened during a clip erstwhile nine was petrified and hospitals were connected their knees and I felt similar my communicative represented anticipation and the information that you person the quality to decision immoderate hostile if you privation it severely enough.

"During a accidental gathering with 1 of my heroes, Steve Coogan, I was fortunate capable to person a agelong speech with him covering each sorts of topics – music, lockdown, the Lake District.

“It wasn’t until we started talking astir my caller unwellness that Coogan raised the thought of maine penning astir what I had conscionable gone through. I Initially wrote the publication arsenic a therapeutic exercise. Being successful and coming retired of a coma is simply a precise traumatic event.

“I recovered penning to beryllium a adjuvant assistance to my betterment arsenic I attempted to re-piece the jigsaw pieces of my encephalon and mind, to heal myself and effort to abstracted the world and fabrication of the satellite astir maine to the hallucinogenic, vivid dreams I experienced during my illness."