reality that wasn t with us anymore. and i believed immediately that he was in heaven. what made you believe that? my faith was strengthened in those moments. i didn t doubt it at all. the video went viral. it did. it had been going around for hours even though ben had just passed away a few hours before. why do you think he made that video? it was ben s way of saying good-bye. and i think it was a gift to the world. i think he wanted others to have hope that there is life after life. and that there is peace in the and that there is peace in the midst of suffering.
the rapper. yeah. and he said he had his hand on ben s shoulder. and he said there was this mirror. he said when he was looking in that mirror, he wasn t just seeing his reflection, but he saw his whole life. he said when he looked in the mirror, it was the best feeling and that he was happy with everything that had happened in his life and he was proud of himself. and ben thought he was going forward to heaven, but instead he woke up on the floor of the high school. i had come home from college to visit that weekend, and we sat out by the lake on our boat dock. it was very unusual to find him out in the dark in the middle of the night in the winter when it was so cold so i asked why he was there.
on the first day of summer, ben thought he would be on the lake wake boarding. i went into the room and it was similar to the time he was four, but i knew he wasn t having a seizure because he was conscious and he was talking. his fingers were blue. by the time we got to the e.r., we learned there was an abscess on the tonsil. so we went into everything expecting it to be extremely routine. but it was during the surgery that ben experienced cardiac arrest. he finally got up to icu and he was unconscious and they had him on the a breathing machine. they warned us that when he woke up, the hope was he would be able to breath on his own. we didn t know what to expect and when he woke up, he looked at ali or me or one of us and said, guys, i need to get back to work. and that s the first thing on his mind. and we re like, okay, ben s back.
what made you believe that? my faith was strengthened in those moments. i didn t doubt it at all. the video went viral. it did. it had been going around for hours even though ben had just passed away a few hours before. why do you think he made that video? it was ben s way of saying good-bye. and i think it was a gift to the world. i think he wanted others to have hope that there is life after life. and that there is peace in the midst of suffering. captions by vitac www.vitac.com
my name is deann breedlove. my son is ben breedlove, and ben cheated death four times. hey, guys. we have reached 17,000 of subscribers. that s insane. what is it about making videos that your brother loved so much? it doesn t matter how a person looks. if they have braces or acne or anything like that. what matters is their personality. i have a really big challenge in my life. i have heart condition. it is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. you remember that day that you got the diagnosis, what you felt? yes, i do.