In 2019, Charlotte Holmes was having a normal check-up with her cardiologist when she received some surprising news.\n

During the appointment, her blood pressure jumped to 234\/134, which is significantly higher than the normal 120\/80 and signals a hypertensive crisis.\n

After being told she was \u201cnot going home,\u201d Charlotte, of Wichita, Kansas, was sent to the hospital \u201cto get that blood pressure down.\u201d\n

The old woman was placed in a room and hooked up to an IV in the hopes that it would relax the blood vessels and lower the amount of effort required by her heart.\n\n\n\n

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Danny, her spouse of nearly 50 years, was by her side, watching as medics treated his wife.\n

\u201cImmediately they called this code, and everybody started rushing in and they just started working on her,\u201d says Danny. \u201cMy feelings were\u2026\u201dI\u2019m wondering if I\u2019ll be able to bring her home.\u201d\n

Then Danny recounts that his wife began talking about \u201cthe flowers.\u201d\n

\u201cWell, I looked around and realized there were no flowers in that room. things\u2019s when I realized she wasn\u2019t here when things happened.\u201d\n

Then Charlotte\u2019s heart stopped and according to both her and her husband, she was clinically de:ad for the next 11 minutes.\n

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\u201cI was above my body. I could see Danny standing in the corner,\u201d Charlotte explains of her \u201cout of body experience.\u201d \u201c[Danny] had backed up. I could see them, all the nurses around. And then I opened my eyes. I looked around at the beauty. I could see the trees, I could see the grass. And everything was swaying with the music. I can\u2019t convey to you what heaven looked like, [because] it\u2019s so above what we could even imagine, a million times.\u201d\n

The woman shares that she was guided into \u201cheaven by angels,\u201d and adds, \u201cThere is no fear.\u201d It feels like pure delight. When the angels take over, there is no fear. Going home is wonderful delight.\u201d\n

She then claims she was reunited with deceased family members: \u201cI saw my mother. I saw my father. I saw my sister. \u201cI noticed family members standing behind.\u201d\n

Charlotte then describes how she was blinded by what she saw next.\n

\u201cThere was a bright light behind my parents and dad. I couldn\u2019t look at it. So vibrant. But I felt sure it was [God]. I noticed a toddler. And I remember thinking, \u2018Who is this?\u2019.\u201d She was told that it was her child, whom she miscarried many decades ago when she was around six months pregnant.\n

\u201cI remember them holding up the baby and saying, \u2018Charlotte, it\u2019s a boy.’\u201d Then he was gone. So when I saw this toddler, I thought, \u2018God, how is that possible?\u2019 He says, \u201cThey continue to grow in heaven.\u201d But there is no time. It\u2019s eternal. So, after 48 years, my child, our child, is now a toddler.\n

Unfortunately, her journey did not stop there.\n

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Charlotte awoke after 11 minutes and described the feeling of returning to her body, saying, \u201cI felt myself being drawn into my body.\u201d I felt agony where I had not felt it before. \u201cI felt the sorrow.\u201d\n

Her husband, who was relieved when he spotted her blinking her eyes, says, \u201cI knew then I was going to get to bring [her] home.\u201d\n

Charlotte recovered and continued to share her tale until her death on November 28, 2023, at age 72.\n

She leaves behind her 52-year-old husband, daughter Chrystal Holmes Meek, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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