Her body was cooled to 60 degrees. Her heart was stopped. The blood was drained out of her brain. Every monitor in the room said she was dead.
Then she woke up and described her own surgery.
Pam Reynolds had an aneurysm at the base of her brain that couldn't be operated on by ordinary means. So Dr. Robert Spetzler stopped her heart, drained her brain, and gave himself 30 minutes to rebuild the artery.
When she recovered, she told him she had watched the whole thing. He told her she couldn't have. She was under surgical drapes. She was brain dead.
So she described his custom-made instruments. The conversations between the doctors, word for word. The problems that came up mid-surgery.
"She described the music they were playing in the operating room while she was brain dead."
Spetzler's own response: "I can't explain it."