My first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of December 29, 1934. Now I wish to thank God for the manifold blessings that have come to me since then. In the summer of 1948, my husband, my daughter, and I had a car accident while on a trip East. The car was demolished. My husband and daughter were not badly hurt, but I was paralyzed. I was taken to a hospital, where I informed the attendants I was a Christian Scientist and would be having Christian Science treatment. However, X rays were taken, and they showed that my back was broken in two places and that some of the vertebrae were crushed and out of place. The doctor said to my daughter, "Your mother will never walk again, and it will be at least eight months before she can leave this hospital." I did not accept this verdict.
The most difficult part of the entire healing came in the next few days. It was the overcoming of self. My daughter and husband had been released from the hospital, and I lay there full of disappointment and self-pity. As my thoughts rose to higher levels and as I was able to be happy and grateful for the freedom of my loved ones, my healing began to take place. No material medicine or remedies were used. The doctor had a cast made for me, but when he started to put me into it I requested that it be removed, and it was.
On the eighth day new X rays were taken. The doctor was delighted with the wonderful healing they disclosed, and he acknowledged that Christian Science had accomplished it. He remarked that he had specialized in such cases during World War II, but that in all his experiences he had never known a broken back to be healed without being placed in a cast.
