From coma to clarity: Travis Shreeve's miraculous journey
American Travis Shreeve was on his way to the hospital when he fainted at home. He was in a coma for about a week and a half. Today, he shares what he "saw" during that time, where he "was," and to whom he credits his "return to the living."
7:29 PM EDT, October 20, 2024
As an accountant, Travis Shreeve gained weight during the pandemic due to his sedentary lifestyle. Additionally, after contracting COVID-19, his health rapidly declined, prompting him to go to the emergency room.
While descending the stairs of his house to head to the hospital, he realized he was having trouble breathing. He asked his wife to call an ambulance. Meanwhile, he lost consciousness. He recalls fragments of his trip to the hospital, but soon after, he fell into a coma.
He admitted, however, that he was "more aware than [he] would ever want to be." He felt that the hospital staff didn't care about him at all.
I was seeing the nurses come in, I was very aware of them, they were coming in, and they wouldn't talk to me, they were just ignoring me and I felt that something was dangerously wrong, he recalled.
In an interview on the YouTube channel "Prioritize Your Life," he confessed that those one and a half weeks felt like three months.
It was the most terrifying thing of my life times 10, I was fighting to breathe. I fought, and I fought and, I fought to breathe and there was a point where I felt such exhaustion that I felt like this is my last breath, he reported.
The body had no strength to fight. Travis found himself "elsewhere"
When his body was about to give up, Travis felt he was "elsewhere." He described this place as "beautiful, white, clean." Everything there was immaculate, allowing him to forget entirely about his crisis.
He also mentioned that he felt the presence of another person, a woman. He knew it was someone he loved, who assured him that everything would be alright.
She had spoken to me almost through downloaded information to say that she somehow intervened on my behalf, I don’t know whether she impressed something upon a doctor's mind or plead with God on my behalf, I don’t know what that was, but I came to understand she did in fact intervene on my behalf, I just knew it, he recounted in the interview.
Shortly afterward, he realized he was back in the hospital, confident that the woman he felt had "found a way out" of him.
One last time I was shown an image, it’s like I wasn't allowed to fully remember the image, but there was my family and there were a couple other individuals, and she spoke to me one more time, this was my only moment of peace in the hospital, and she said, ‘Everything is going to be okay, we will be whole again’, and I felt something special about that, added Travis.
