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Three weeks later he’s walking around with a PCA pump getting fentanyl. So he can press the pump every so many minutes and the pump will then remember so he can’t press it too many times, and he gets a little burst of fentanyl. And he’s in agony.

And this abscess is about the size of a fist, and the thoracic surgeon’s itching. He says: OK, well, we’re going to have to cut this out, because if we don’t the abscess will expand or it’ll go septic and he’ll die.

So I told Mark. He’s sixteen-and-a-half; he’s not really bright; his mother is kind of emotionally a basket case, and he said: Well. I want... They were, you know, they were “believers,” you know, Christians. They don’t believe in miracles. They don’t believe that we have the authority to take authority over reality, whether it’s our physical bodies or whatever.

So I said: Look Mark, I’m going to pray for you. I said: And tomorrow morning instead of you going in for surgery, you’re going to walk out of here.

And at first he looked at me like: Whoa, that’s a pretty bold thing to say.

So I stayed up all night and I prayed for him. Next morning I came in about 7.15 and I just put my hand on him and said: God, you saved this kid from seven bullets to the chest. Right? And one to the arm and leg. And the bullets actually went behind his heart and in front of the aorta. One hit the T-9 vertebra and knocked a fragment off.

And this is the way I talked to God, I said: You’re going to heal him immediately and you’re going to transform his body so he’ll be a witness, because if you didn’t allow him to survive this without being able to tell the truth of what happened in Columbine.

So I put my hand on him. It was like holding a high-tension power line. All of a sudden it just felt like this energy [makes sizzling noise] coming right through me. And I could see literally with the mind’s eye, if you want to call it, The Creator. I could see right down to his cells, and everything, and it was gone.

I said: Mark, get your clothes ready. We’re walking out of here.

BR:  Wow! Yeah.

BD:  And I walked up to the front desk to the nurse and I said: He’s not going to surgery for a 7-hour procedure to cut out four ribs and take out this abscess. He’s coming home.

She looked at me like: Oh-oh, this guy’s a nut case. How can we get psychiatry down here? Right?

I said: No. Repeat the CT scan. It’s gone. So they repeated the CT scan and an hour-and-a-half later, he was hopping and skipping out of the hospital.

BR:  Fabulous.

KC:  Now isn’t info about this on the web, about this boy and his mother in regard to you?

BD:  Oh, what happened is they get involved with... The mother has a problem; she’s a manic depressive. And they offered all kinds of big movie scripts and money and everything and Mark actually...

Right now I just got a contact from her doctor just last week because I’m trying to help the doctor. He called me all the way from Iowa, saying: Please, you’re one of the few people that care for Mark. And I still do, and I care for his mom, too.

But they said a lot of nasty things because they got involved with some pastors, and they got a big possibility of a movie contract.

And what was happening is I was working and my wife was working on collecting a ton of information, because we were going to private showings of videotape that the public didn’t see. I got a chance to interview and talk to almost every other child that survived the Columbine shooting.

So there were many of the kids that actually died of SWAT Team bullets. There were at least, probably, we think up to 4 kids that may have died from SWAT Team bullets, from the forensics.

And Mark literally stayed and lived with us for almost a year-and-a-half. He went to vacation with us, even to Las Vegas. Right? Even when they asked me to go up in January of 2000 to speak at the Full Gospel Fellowship, I paid my own ticket. We didn’t ask for anything.

So what happened is, the mother had been contacted by a big movie company, wanting to turn this into a Columbine movie, and they got real angry that we wouldn’t just hand everything over or do things their way.

I said: No, no, we’re not going to turn this into a sideshow here. This is real serious; we had this kid survive; we had this miraculous thing happen; we don’t want this to turn into a sideshow. And that’s where the negativity started.

BR:  Yeah.

BD:  But it’s really unfortunate that happened, because Mark is still, you know, he’s very sick right now. He’s been in and out of a psychiatric facility.

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