I would like to share my testimony of the healing of tuberculosis. According to the doctor both lungs were infected, and he stated that surgery was the only thing that would give me relief and clear up the condition. At this point I turned to Christian Science. I never submitted to surgery.
My healing was slow because there was much conditioning to be done in my thinking. I suffered from discouragement. I had been in and out of sanatoriums for nearly ten years, and I also recalled that my own mother had had weak lungs and poor health. I had fears of many kinds, including a sense of inferiority, and was so self-conscious that I would almost panic in crowds.
I had to overcome a reluctance to accept the teachings of Christian Science. I had been a medical nurse and was steeped in materia medica. Looking back now, I can see why my healing was delayed. In the first place I had been believing in the reality and power of the disease from which I suffered. Above all else I wanted to be healed. I was not seeking a religion. I just wished to be well so that I could be at home with my family. Another hindrance was that I felt desperately sorry for myself. As I look back, I can see that I had become resentful, self-righteous, willful, critical, dominating, ill-tempered. I was a very unhappy individual.
