Three years ago last November I came to Christian Science for physical healing when all material remedies had failed. During the summer I had teen to a hospital in Kansas City two different times, to be operated upon for ovarian trouble, appendicitis, and a floating kidney. In operating for appendicitis they failed to remove the appendix, and I had harder attacks than before and suffered greatly from the laparotomy wound which had failed to heal properly. I also had bladder and kidney trouble so badly that I was not allowed to drink any water except lithia water. When my husband went to see a Christian Science practitioner I was taking three kinds of medicine three times a day and one kind twice a day. I had been drinking lithia water for several months, and the doctor said I should have to continue drinking it for a year. I was also wearing a tight bandage and could eat scarcely anything without suffering intensely. I was immediately cured of the kidney and bladder trouble, and though my healing of the appendicitis was very slow, never but once did I send to my practitioner for help that I was not relieved in half an hour.
After taking treatment for about four months I began, to think, "If this is God's work, why does He not heal me of all my sufferings?" Finally I wrote to the practitioner that he could stop treating me. It was not a month until I was under the doctor's care again. He treated me for some time but could not do me any good and told my husband so, and advised him to take me to Colorado. We employed another doctor, who treated me for about two weeks and said he had done all he could. Arrangements were made three times for me to start for Colorado, but each time I grew so ill that I could not go. I thought this my last hope, so we started from Weir City and traveled as far as Columbus, a distance of ten miles. When we arrived at Columbus I was so sick I had to be helped off the train. My husband then said to me, "Anything that you want to do, or any help you want you shall have it."
I could not help thinking of Christian Science, and how soon I had always been relieved when we had telephoned to the practitioner, so I said, "There never was anything that gave me the relief Christian Science did." We took the first train home, and my husband telephoned to Joplin, and the practitioner came to see me on the evening train. In three days I was able to go to his home, where I remained two weeks, then came home. In three weeks I dismissed my girl and began doing my own housework.
