I had my own last month and it had no warning signs...the cause was a bee sting from a few days before that developed a low grade infection.  I’m thankful for my gf because she picked up on it right away in a phone call when I was seemingly clueless to what was happening to me.

Elaine is spot-on with what she posted about being aware.  When in crisis, you can hear just fine, you can see just fine although light hurt my eyes really badly during it---I keenly remember wishing I had my sunglasses on during the drive there (at midnight or so) and then in the hospital.  My sense of smell was beyond normal and could smell GF’s perfume as soon as she walked in the door that night even though I was 20 feet away.

Also, don’t believe the folks when they say your baby can’t feel the prick of the needle during a crisis.  He or she will feel it, but what is going on isn’t quite connecting with the brain as the pathways seem to get so messed up.  While the prick feeling is there (my skin was super sensitive to touch during this) it isn’t really registering pain in the way someone is used to; the pain and prick hurt but in ways I can’t really describe as I don’t have the words for them.  I remember each needle going into me quite clearly even if I was unable to respond at the time.

My last experience may be a bit different as I was also going into cardiac arrest as a result of the crisis (which ended once I was out of crisis and without damage thankfully) and that may have affected my senses also.

Kirk, I’m glad your little one is okay and chugging along again.  I look at these instances as learning experiences as long as they turn out all right, as most of them do.  There are those who have lost children here and I am very saddened when I hear about them.

Betsy