Sid: And if this doesn’t do it for you, if this week’s interview doesn’t do it for you I don’t think anything could do it for you. Because I’m talking to Dean & Marilyn Braxton and Dean on May 4th 2006 had an experience in which he went to Heaven and it’s one of the best descriptions and one of the best understandings from a spiritual perspective of how things are suppose to operate on earth with all of Heaven behind you. And let me take you back to that day Dean that was May 4th 2006 your working as a probation supervisor and what happened?
Dean: Well, what happened is that day I got up early in the morning, had a pain on my side, on my right side and headed to work with that pain. I’ve had them before and it was kidney stones and I’ve passed kidney stones, but I always worked through them. But that day for some reason and I knew something was wrong and got to work the pain didn’t go away, left work, came home, stayed home for a little while then went to the emergency room at the hospital. Let them know that I had kidney stones I believe; ironically there was no one in the emergency room. To me that was surprising, they took me right in gave me some medication and I was out for a while. They got a hold of my wife she came, the doctor said, hey he has multiple kidney stones on both sides, we have the machine coming. There was a machine, a mobile machine that goes from hospital to hospital, it just happened to be coming to that hospital the next day. And they decided that they would go ahead and blast the kidney stones.
Sid: I’ve heard of that, is that a painful procedure?
Dean: No, they put you out and you don’t really feel it, your sore the next…you know when you wake up, like anything that hits you 100,000 times it’s going to be painful, some soreness afterwards. But I wasn’t I didn’t feel it when I was going through it. But I also had a kidney infection, and that’s the key there. They thought that they had given me antibiotics to take care of that, but it must not have. For whatever reasons the doctors didn’t check the medical records before they took me into the operation and so I still had that kidney infection. My wife was there, she took my temperature, I had 104 temperature, she brought it up to the doctors, they said, “Oh well, that’s just part of the things that I was going through.” They went ahead and put me in that machine and when they did that we found out later what they did is pushed that poison and infection throughout my whole body.
Sid: Awe.
Dean: My whole body just started shutting down on them.
Sid: Now Marilyn, when did you realize this was more critical than just a kidney stone?
Marilyn: Well, I realized it was more critical when, you know they had taken him in you know and with a 104 temperature and also he was having chills really bad.
Dean: But why would you as his wife be taking his temperature, he’s in the hospital? How come you did that?
Marilyn: Well, you know the reason I did it was because I worked at that particular hospital before and on the same floor I knew several of the nurses and there stood a thermometer in the room and I decided to take his temperature.
Sid: So, you’ve been in the health field for many years you understand things like that.
Marilyn: Yes, I have.
Sid: In fact, my notes say four thirty-four years you have been in the health field. Okay, so okay he has this high temperature what happened next?
Marilyn: Well, they take him in to surgery and when he comes out of surgery I spent about the last half hour in the recovery room with him where the anesthesiologist approached me and told me that my husband need to be in the intensive care unit because of the infection and because he need more fluids. But he went in and immediately they wanted to put a pcc line in him or a central line now, that they usually put that in your neck or in your chest; and they were going to attempt to put it in his jugular. But what happened they reached a blockage and during that time you know they come back to get me in the waiting area and I looked at Dean and Dean was barely breathing! And I looked at the doctor and I said, “What happened?” And he said<””We reached a blockage in his neck and we put it in his chest instead.” And then the doctor looks at me and it’s a critical care doctor that I didn’t know at the time and he looks at me and he says, “We need to intubate your husband right away or else he could die!” All of this happened so suddenly. And that intubation is where they put a tube down your throat.
Sid: It’s like a breathing tube or?
Marilyn: It’s a breathing tube; they’re actually going to put him on a breathing machine to breath, because he was barely breathe
Sid: I see.
Marilyn: Because he was barely breathing.
Sid: So then you realize that this is getting serious. What happened next?
Marilyn: You know what I did? This was just by the grace of God, I left the room because they were going to do the procedure, but we live probably about five minutes from the hospital. And as I got out to the car, drove off on the road, no more than a couple of blocks I get a phone call from the doctor that did the surgery itself and he told me, “Marilyn your husband’s heart just stopped and they are doing CPR on him right now as we speak.” And all I could say was what? And I remember saying nothing else and I hung up the phone and I continued to go home, believe it or not because I had purposed to go home to grab some clothes and I was going to stay overnight, but I continued to go home, called my son daughter asked them to begin to pray. Called up some other friends and I had a…
Sid: But wait, what does this mean that his heart stopped? Does that mean that he’s dead?
Marilyn: That means that does, that means that they’re trying to get his heart back pumping, working; and they worked on him for an hour and forty-five minutes. And they called it prolong cardiac arrest.
Sid: So when they’re working on him does that mean his heart’s not beating?
Marilyn: That’s exactly.
Sid: For an hour and forty-five minutes, how’s that possible?
Marilyn: Yes, its wild, but things just spiraled down. He was suppose to go home have this surgery and be released and then go home the next day. He spent thirteen days in the hospital and nine of those days was in the intensive care unit.
Sid: When you realized that you’re about ready to lose your husband, what did you do?
Marilyn: You know, I just gave it to God and I put my trust totally in the Lord and I continued to pray; I didn’t panic but I just trusted in the Lord. And I went home, a girl friend picked me up; took me back to the hospital we prayed and then after we were all in the waiting area, several friends came. The Lord just put a song in my heart just to sing and give Him praise even in the midst of the storm.
Sid: Now Dean, you had told me something interesting that you had found out about one of our guests, and did you see him on TV or hear him on radio?
Dean: What we did is we really heard him on the computer, on the computer, we went on line and pulled up the show and listened to him on the show.
Sid: So that was Curry Blake and he had a seminar from the John G. Lake ministry on healing, and you and your whole family went to that. Marilyn, if you hadn’t gone to that seminar do you think that Dean would be with us today?
Marilyn: You know it’s possible that he couldn’t have, I really chose; I really learned a lot from that training and it was awesome and I think that I began to have a little bit more boldness and authority. I became more aggressive, just dogmatic in my belief for healing.
Sid: Okay, so for seven days Dean you were not aware of what was going on or were you?
Dean: No, I wasn’t you know I was not really aware of what was going on until after they finally took the breathing tube out of my mouth. Now I knew that I had died I just did not know why I had died. You know I had been with Jesus, I had been in Heaven I knew all of that, but I didn’t know what had happened to cause that for me to have that experience to be honest with you. The last thing I remember was going in the hospital for kidney stones and I remember after they had taken the breathing rube out of my mouth and talking to my the person there, he was a friend of mine and telling him that I had seen Jesus three times. But in my mind I was thinking what had happened? I don’t remember being hit by a car, I don’t remember falling off a building, I remember going into the hospital for kidney stones, but I also thought that could not have caused this.
Sid: Okay, from a medical viewpoint, Marilyn and you understand this did the doctors say that he was dead?
Marilyn: He didn’t say that he was dead, but he said your husband heart stopped, he isn’t breathing. And we worked on him for an hour and forty-five minutes. Even after Dean was released from the hospital I confronted this doctor myself, who was the critical care doctor and I said, “Would you please tell me again how long you worked on my husband?” And he said, “I worked on him for an hour and forty-five minutes.”
Sid: So, were saying then for an hour and forty-five minutes your husband’s heart was not beating.
Marilyn: That’s right.
Sid: Okay, were out of time right now but Mishpochah when you understand what it’s like to be seated in heaven and be on earth you will understand prayer, you’ll understand your authority. This is probably one of the best descriptions and understandings of Heaven you’ll ever read. And what God downloaded into Dean Braxton that he’s revealed in this book will be life changing for you.
