1923 star Danielle Vasinova is opening up about a time that she almost died. She revealed that she actually flatlined for three minutes.
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In December 2019, Vasinova contracted COVID-19. She ended up going to the urgent care thinking that she caught the flu. However, doctors diagnosed her with strep throat and sent her home. But her symptoms didn't improve.
Later the next day, she woke her brother in the middle of the morning. And she told him, "I think I'm going to die." He drove her to the ER where Vasinova ended up going into cardiac arrest. She said that the staff started giving her chest compressions and that she flatlined.
"For three minutes," she told Fox News. "Gone."
Fortunately, they were able to get her heart pumping. But she ended up in a medically induced coma.
"So I had complete organ failure," Vasinova explained. "They put me on a ventilator, and I was there for almost a month. My mom was from New York. They couldn't tell her that I was going to make it. They didn't know if I was going to relapse, if I was going to pull through, if this was the end of the road or not. But there was something more for me. It wasn't my time to go."
Danielle Vasinova Talks Dying
By the time, she later exited the hospital, she was a shell of her former shelf. "I was 90 pounds," she said. "I had to relearn how to walk."
She continued, "I had to really take a step back and figure out ... why was it not my time, and what is my purpose, and what am I here to do? Because I didn't even know how I was going to work again. I didn't know my path forward. I didn't know what to do."
Vasinova ended up turning to horseback riding to get her strength back.
"I started going to the barn and I couldn't ride because I was so weak. I couldn't even go up a stairwell. But I started going to the barn, and it was like, the healing, the healing power of horses and just being around them and being around that energy. And I just felt like ... there's a greater purpose here."
As far as her brush with death, she said that she remembered feeling a sense of peace.
"I don't remember because they induced coma right away," she explained. "Right away. Like after I died, I went right into a coma, and they said that I could have flashbacks, I could have things that happen or that come to me later in life. But I don't remember seeing a light. I don't remember anything like that."
She continued, "I can't really describe it as anything other than like, there's nothing to be afraid of. So weird because it was so traumatic, like it was so ... I was gone. But there was just this sense of peace, the sense of calm that came over. That's that's all I remember."
