I have long felt a desire to tell of my physical healing and what Christian Science has done for me and my dear ones. I had a trouble for thirty-four years, which caused inflammation of the kidneys and nervous prostration. I also had heart trouble. I tried every remedy I could hear of, but was confined to my bed almost half of the time during the last twenty years. My last three physicians said there was no medicine that could cure me, that change of climate and travel was all that could help me. Then I treated with one doctor who used vapor baths and electricity. He said I had ulcerated liver and uncerated bowels; then cancer of the breast. I suffered great agony at times with pain in my breast and side, and also with ulcerated eyelids and neuralgia in the head and face.
About once a month I would be in bed two or three days with the sick headache. I could not read at night on account of my eyes. Another claim I had was rheumatism in my limbs, feet, and hands. The finger joints were drawn out of place. The doctor said it was softening of the bone. My ankles and knees were the same and much enlarged. I could not sleep at night unless I took an opiate.
I used quinine and everything the doctors gave me, and then I lay awake all night many a night, so painful were my feet and limbs. I used pillows twenty-five years to support my limbs and back, and aside from my physical distress, I was in great mental and spiritual darkness. Although I was a member of the church thirty years, I was not satisfied. I tried to live a Christian life and prayed to be well; then my husband would say, "If there is anything in Christianity, why don't it help you?" Here is where Christian Science found me five years ago, and I am thankful to say I am healed of all my ills.
